Posted on: May 8th, 2012 by Ben Gebo |
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In April I shot my first assignment for Colloquy. It’s the alumni magazine for Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. I shoot people, I shoot places, I love shooting people in places. The location itself is a subject, but people respond strongest when another human being is present in the photo. Photography creates tangible memories, two-dimensional representations of the past. As an editorial photographer, my role is to have something to say about that memory and make a connection for the reader. If I can stop the reader from flipping from page to page and get them to read the first two sentences of the article after looking at the photograph, then I’ve done my job.
The first portraits I did for the issue were of Jason Kaufman and Kevin Lewis. The article is about how they used Facebook to figure our whether or not we choose our friends based on common interests or form interests based on the friendship itself. While Jason and Kevin attempted to answer this question, their findings were a little more complex than they initially anticipated. I hold a friend’s interest, taste, or idea much more validly than discovering it from another source. Isn’t that a good thing? Go here if you’d like to read the full article.
Posted on: April 20th, 2011 by Ben Gebo |
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I recently did some work with Pre-con Construction, based out of Boston. It’s a company that does historical restorations, residential and office renovations, as well as many other kinds of construction. It was a long, but fun project to work with them as well as Visual Dialogue, who created the website. I’ve posted some photographs below of various projects we shot.
These first two photos below were from the first shoot we had where we needed to get a portrait and detail shots for the website. Pictures 3-5 were interior/exteriors of a Boston office building near Government Center. The residential locations for 6-8 were shot in Jamaica Plain and the last one was taken in a Boston condo. To see more of Pre-Con’s work, visit there website at
Posted on: April 8th, 2011 by Ben Gebo |
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In about a month or less, I’ll have an entirely new website with a new interface. Brought to you by the crafty hands of Donovan Brien and Matthew Budelman. Both have been working very quickly and diligently in getting me this amazing new site, I can’t wait to share it.
I’ve accumulated quite a bit of photographs over the last few months. I’ve traveled to Colorado, Florida and New York to shoot these portraits just for you. Feel free to let me know what you think.
“Cointet Element” is a new song I worked on recently. I’m aware of what needs changing, but it’s just a work in progress at the moment. My friend Darrell said it was the soundtrack to the best Nintendo game never made. Quite a compliment, I’d say.
