Portraits through warmth
and conversation.
New England & the Tri-State Area
Digital
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Film
New England & the Tri-State Area
I'm Ben — a photographer, teacher, and Harvard-trained scholar based in the Boston area. I work with natural light, familiar locations, and a lot of back-and-forth to create photos that express who you are and what you love.
If you think you hate being photographed, I'd love to change your mind. My shoots are warm, collaborative, and unhurried. I come prepared to chat, set you at ease, and guide you through posing. Together, we'll devise a plan that gives you exactly what you're looking for, whether a preexisting vision or something you didn't know you wanted until you saw it on the backscreen of my camera.
Pre-shoot consultation and fully-edited gallery, delivered within one week.
I make black and white prints by hand, the old fashioned way. If you're interested in a print from our session, or from my fine art work, I'm happy to discuss. These are made one at a time with the glowing whites and inky blacks of luxurious silver-gelatin paper.
Alongside my portrait work, I maintain an ongoing personal photo project: a long-form exploration of joy in the academic study of religion. My goal is to shed new light on the nebulous field of religious studies by documenting the faces and environments of people who dedicate their lives to studying religious and humanistic traditions.
I began the project while a Masters student in Jewish Studies at Harvard, but its roots run back to my study of philosophy at Brown University, where I developed the conviction that the scholarly encounter with meaning is one of the least-photographed forms of human delight. Reach out — I love to discuss it.
Get in touch about this projectSessions fill quickly around graduation season. Send a note about what you're celebrating, what you're nervous about, what you want to remember — and I'll be in touch within 48 hours.
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