Mobile Photography & Art – ‘Intimate Interview’ with John Nieto from San Francisco, California, United States

The first thing that comes to mind, before the idea of a profession, was more of an ambition to produce my life in a certain way that it was currently not going. I could see it so clearly. I was my actual size, but the rest of humanity was the size of a common doll that needed some guidance and I planned on straightening it all out to be much more vibrant and interesting for everybody.

I have these three certificates in a photo album that was recently shared with me after the death of my mother and they were announcing that I was “Outstanding Student” of the year in 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade. It had a strange and wonderful way of connecting me back to a part of myself, that very instant, that maybe life and it’s challenges had chiseled away at.

It was a good thing to have light up, kind of like finding a letter from a loved one you hadn’t read in years.

My first job was at the age of 16 and it was in Dallas Texas at a place called Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour. I remember the night well because my mother took pictures of me dressed up in my little parlour hat, apron, and mini tie before heading out the door.

First generation to desegregate public schools in Texas.

After a couple of years of college I took a pause to get licensed to cut hair and before I knew it I was art director of Toni&Guy and moving to Miami, Florida.

My father was my best friend and creative/spiritual advisor. He will forever be influencing my life. I’m also blessed to have very deep life long friendships with a handful of people to which I owe everything. Working for years with a clientele also has its gems and I’ve found more inspiration and knowledge through these continuous relationships.

Besides walking several miles a week across San Francisco I don’t belong to a gym or anything but I definitely have my martial/dancer/yogic practice on the living room floor as often as possible. Always with music.

For me, I think it’s been a constant balancing act of ambition, talent, and quite obviously, luck.

That hasn’t happened yet.

I often get turned on by the idea of having a home that moves around. A yacht would be amazing but I’d also consider an Airstream/RV as long as somebody else dealt with the mechanical side of things in either case.

Printing and framing and printing and framing.

The places where I’m barefoot with the people that make me laugh and feel like I’m in an alternate universe of giddiness. Oh, and there is food everywhere.

To get hitched and live in Mexico. 😉

To let my mother and father live on through me after losing them both pretty suddenly, and 2 weeks apart, in the summer of 2018. Part of my duty now is to listen and allow their greatness to shine through me.

Transforming people’s lives every day through style, art & communication. Also, holding down a flat and surviving San Francisco’s insane housing situation.

Saying things they don’t mean in order to seem nice or supportive. I don’t need that.

Way to go old man, you kept your hair!

I’m known to purge and when I moved across country from Miami to San Francisco i donated crates and crates of actual vinyl albums. Unfortunately, one of them was the All State Band of Texas in which I happened to have had a prominent part on the trumpet. It was a very rude awakening the day I realised it was part of that purge.

Staying alive and well after 5G.

After having a handful of paranormal and unexplained personal experiences I have come to believe that there is most certainly more to life than not

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