User talk:Oliver James L'EROE

Oliver James L'eroe (born Dennis Albert Reynoso Castillo on August 24th, 1975) is an American photographer. Aelius "The Gypsy" due to the extensive amount of traveling he holds per year, mainly through Europe and North America, is mainly known for his black and white 35mm film images of musicians performing live, on stage.

Early Life
L'EROE's birth took place at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City to Dominican parents. His mother, Maria Del Rosario Castillo, is from San Francisco De Macoris, Dominican Republic, studied to become a child psychologist, but never finished and worked at a restaurant named "El Deportivo" in Washington Heights (New York City), site where she met his father, Juan A. Reynoso who hails from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, a cab driver at night and a kitchen staff worker at New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center during long hours of the day, also located in Washington Heights (NYC). L'EROE was taken to Dominican Republic at the early age of eight months, until the age of 11 years, traveling to NYC in between as a toddler. He attended catholic schools in Dominican Republic while growing up and was known for his athletic abilities, sarcasm, love for animals and "different class" (the poor) type of friends, since hailing from a middle-class family, early on in Santo Domingo.

Career
Began his career as a photographer during the late 1980's, shooting WWF wrestling shows, mainly following around the performances of a wrestler at the time known as the Ultimate Warrior due to the personal influences outside the squared circle. Attended P.S. 52 in New York City, before graduating with honors to George Washington High School in Washington Heights. During the stardom of what would become a premature and tough road to face (life), he found himself homeless in 1993. Two and a half years after his mother left he and his older brother (from another father) to face life on their own, equally, L'EROE's father would turn his back on him with the claims of having a family of his own (with a different woman). Antonio Gomez (who would consequently perish, ironically, on August 24th, 2007), father of Omar and Nestor Gomez, two of L'EROE's closest friends growing up in Wash. Hts., would go on and subconsciously adopt L'EROE for the next one and a half year. During the Summer of 1994, L'EROE became a messenger for Hotline Delivery Service and moved in as a roommate with his older brother in Long Island City a.k.a. Queens NY. Prior to a year of sharing the apartment, both decided to move to the Bronx with Carlos Guzman (the third roommate), who happened to be the bass player for "La Ruta," an underground Rock En Espanol music band, together with Henry Mena (vocals and guitar), as well as Luis "El Pulpo" Ruiz (drums and member of King Chango). Shortly after, L'EROE's older brother decided to move on with life, marrying and vanishing from the tale that was about to take its own shape. L'EROE would become a part-time roadie for "La Ruta" and whilst in the mix, would also shoot black and white film (mainly) of the band, during weekend and increasingly lengthy monthly performances. In 1997, L'EROE chose to finally part ways with the bike messenger business, given the fact that at the time, he was working for a photo lab (L.T.I.) and because of the extensive amount of film from the wrestling shows he was shooting, questions began to linger as far as who the film being brought to the lab was for, the crew not knowing that the film was his own, would eventually find out it was L'EROE's work, offering a job inside as a film technician by Patty Katchur, manager of Sixty Eight Degrees, a fine black and white film lab in New York City... To Be Continued...