Angelo Victor Mercure was born on December 11, 1953 in Youngstown, Ohio. He left high school at 16 and found himself an Army infantryman in South Vietnam at age 17. He took up combat photography and became acquainted with John Steinbeck IV (an ex-GI turned Paris Match war correspondent who exposed much US government corruption in complicity with the former Saigon regime). After his honorable discharge from military service,

Mercure returned to Saigon as a journalist under his mentor John Steinbeck IV . Exposing prostitution and drug rackets were Mercure’s forte. He was stabbed once and shot twice during the course of his journalistic duties.At various times, Mercure was a stringer/freelancer for The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The New York Daily News, Reuters, and The Australian Information Agency.

     Mercure's erotic fine art photography has been featured in Hustler's Taboo, Gallery, Nugget, Marquis, Exotique, Shiny, Female Mimics International, The Qlimax Times, Transformation, Transformed, Transviews, Transasian, Simply Gorgeous, Hustler's Asian Fever, Girls Of The Orient, TV Scene, Guys As Dolls, Tranny Chasers and Adam As Eve.
      Mercure has spent much of the past forty years in Southeast Asia and on America's Pacific Coast. His current photographic pursuit involves documenting the tormented lives of Thai transsexuals. He will soon release his coffee-table volume, THAI LADYBOYS: SHADOW DANCERS OF THE BANGKOK DEMIMONDE.

Mercure's tools of the trade include a Nikon F5, a Mamiya 645 Pro TL, a Mamiya RZ 67 Pro II, and a Mamiya 7 II Rangefinder.

Angelo Victor Mercure's Erotic Fine Art Photography is in the permanent collections of THE WORLD EROTIC ART MUSEUM
in Miami, Florida and THE KINSEY INSTITUTE GALLERY
at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.