Tequila Minsky has been a photojournalist for the last 28 years after pursuing a smattering of other vocations.
A product of Michigan public schools—Vernor School, Cass Tech, and University of Michigan, she then moved to New York City where there, unless her accent is detected, she is frequently mistaken as a New York native. However, she is proud hailing from Detroit and knowing that there is life on the other side of the Hudson River. 
Minsky grew up with her dad, Max Schrut’s narratives —remembrances of growing up in the “old country”— the village of Krasnicsyn, Poland. 
Her dad was also owner of Blair (photography) Studio for over 50 years where she was immersed with his photography and “the studio” where she occasionally helped in the darkroom. Coupling images and words are in her DNA.
Through New York photo circles over a decade ago, Minsky came to know, follow and feel a kinship with the work of Thomas Allen Harris who by his films and archival sourcing tells American history through family photos. 
It is beshert (destiny) that in his PBS Detroit “Family Pictures USA” episode, he introduces artist Tim Burke who rescued 10,000 negatives from a dumpster on West Grand Blvd. The dumpster was outside a building demolished days later, once Blair Studio, the studio owned by Max Schrut.
Minsky says, “Alerted to Harris’ Detroit PBS piece led me to Limmund 2020.” 
Tequila Minsky writes and photographs for NYC community newspapers, primarily in Manhattan and Brooklyn—think small town paper in big city— covering culture, current events and political activities.
She also has been covering life and politics in Haiti since 1993 and was in Haiti during the 2010 earthquake. Her images, printed on the front page of the New York Times were the first to be published after the earthquake, and were distributed internationally, and exhibited at Wayne State’s Elaine Jacob Gallery in 2011.