Nice Guy Johnny Premier: TriBeCa Film Festival
Celebrities Ed Burns, Christy Turlington, Selma Blair, The Edge and Robert DeNiro walk the red carpet for the premier of Burns’s new film Nice Guy Johnny. 2010 TriBeCa Film Festival.
A little NYC History…
So while looking at a new apartment; need more natural light!!. Saw one today, and on the hallway wall, this left-over from a very Earth-unconcious era. In the old days apartments just burned their trash, plane and simple. You’d throw your garbage down the shoot and into a whirlwind of flame. Now, only the brick [...]
Greek Orthodox Good Friday Service, Upper East Side: IMAGES
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The United Nations fave’d my Photo. Sweet.
Desperation, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. It’s not everyday when the the United Nations singles you out. For better or for worse, I’ll use E.B. White’s description of the organization, as “this lofty target scraping the skies and meeting the destroying planes halfway, home of all people and all nations, capital of everything, housing the [...]
The Things They Carried: A Photo Essay
www.popularmechanics.com: Early in the morning of January 13th, news cameras began to roll, capturing the magnitude of the January 12th earthquake in Haiti. Little did the public know, nearly half a day earlier, senior military leadership was already huddled in an upstairs meeting room at US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), on the phone with the US [...]
Child Labor
Petion-Ville, HAITI — A child at a 5000-person refugee camp west of Port-au-Prince carries a cinderblock on his head. Shot while on a mission with a group from the 82nd Airborne Div. This camp had previously not been found by relief organizations. With tin roofs, salvaged sections of concrete walls serving as building materials, intelligence [...]
Children at the Gate
Children at the Gate, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. Moving on… Something non-Penn related. Delmas, HAITI — Deep within the winding, steep, unpaved blocks of Delmas, an intel recon team from the 82nd Airborne finds a small refugee camp. The mission: find large, uncharted camps and assess medical needs; this camp, so remotely hidden and [...]
Woman in Tent City, Haiti, January 2010
Woman in Tent City, Haiti, January 2010, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. HAITI, JANUARY 2010: A girl hides her face behind the tin wall of just one dwelling In a 5000-person camp we found in Petion-Ville that, at the time, had not yet been discovered. I took this while standing on the pick-up bed of [...]
Kids With Guns
Kids With Guns, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. Deep within the winding, steep, unpaved blocks of Delmas, an intel recon team from the 82nd Airborne finds a small refugee camp. Their mission is to find large, uncharted camps and assess medical needs. This camp, small, remotely hidden and without any serious medical needs, is marked [...]
Ten Seconds to Chaos: 9:24:50 AM
Ten Seconds to Chaos: 9:24:50 AM, originally uploaded by Benjamin Chertoff. Part of my Popular Mechanics photo essay: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4346988.html
PUBLISHED: Ospreys Get their Humanitarian test in Haiti
My third story for Popular Mechanics — this one on the much maligned, but very, very cool, MV-22 Osprey at work in Haiti, is up at PopularMechanics.com. USS Bataan, HAITI — An MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft launches from the flight deck of the Bataan during Operation Unified Response. The relief effort in Haiti is the [...]
PUBLISHED: Flagship in a Box
My next piece for Popular Mechanics is up! Read on to learn how the military is developing command and control units to replace to all-important flagship of yore. Lashed to the USS Bataan’s crowded hangar deck, a group of four sea containers provides complete command and control access for a commanding Naval officer. It also gives [...]
Ryan Keely in Latex
Ryan Keely, October 2009 Penthouse Pet of the Month, models custom-fit latex haut-couture. Photographed December 9, 2009 at the Jacqueline Marie Couture studio in New York City. Many thanks to Lainie Speiser for letting me tag along for a wild day of fittings, radio shows and lots of frantic cab rides. Click through the image [...]
Hang Me on your Wall!
You can now purchase large-format, framed prints, greeting cards and more through my new online store. Of course, it's the best of my work for sale, and I'll be adding prints daily. And it's CHEAP! All proceeds go to the Feed Ben Chertoff Fund. For custom printed, framed, signed prints, please contact me directly.
The King is Dead
Custom, limited-run prints available directly from me in a variety of enlargement sizes. Contact me for pricing and availability.
Street Shots
Custom, limited-run prints are available directly from me in a variety of enlargement sizes. Contact me for pricing and availability.
Power Outage
Copyright 2009, Benjamin Chertoff The great thing about the wee hours of the morning is that you have the whole city to yourself. 30" exposure alongside the FDR.
