It’s nice to get google search results that reminds me of work in the past and that people used to congregate and get close enough for a photo like this. I remembered Kylie Minogue and Naomi Campbell being together, but not Foxy Brown and Tyson Beckford as well. Some days I miss working more than others!
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New Years Eve in Times Square New York for Associated Press
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Long Lens at the Waldorf Astoria
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It's not always the most creative position as your really unable to move around, but there's still something fun about shooting the stage with a 400mm lens. I haven't shot for Getty Images in nearly a year, but this paid assignment landed on a day that i had no other work. They also brought this well used Canon 400mm F2.8 for me to use.
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
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Richard Gere at AOL Studios
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It's always a pleasure to work in the AOL building, and especially when you get to hear such a great actor speak about his new film. Richard Gere plays a homeless man on the streets of NY and a lot of "Out of Time" was shot as candid footage of him actually on the street panhandling.
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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 09: Actor Richard Gere attends AOL BUILD Series Presents:"Out Of Time" at AOL Studios In New York on September 9, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Ben Hider/Getty Images)
Ben Hider - Event and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
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Madam Ambassador by Eleni Kounalakis
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It's not often you get to experience such an amazing New York City apartment. This one was straight out of the movies with a really nice Abelardo Morell in the entryway You can buy a copy of Eleni's book on Amazon here - Madam Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest
Ben Hider - Event Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
About the book
In Madam Ambassador by Eleni Kounalakis a helicopter ride to visit troops in the Afghanistan war zone, a tense meeting with the newly elected Prime Minister, and…a wild boar hunt! Eleni Kounalakis was forty-three and a land developer in Sacramento, California, when she was tapped by President Barack Obama to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. During her tenure, from 2010 to 2013, Hungary was a key ally in the U.S. military surge, held elections in which a center-right candidate gained a two-thirds supermajority and rewrote the country’s constitution, and grappled with the rise of Hungarian nationalism and anti-semitism.
The first Greek-American woman ever to serve as a U.S. ambassador, Kounalakis recounts her training at the State Department’s “charm school” and her three years of diplomatic life in Budapest—from protocols about seating, salutations, and embassy security to what to do when the deposed King of Greece hands you a small chocolate crown (eat it, of course!). A cross between a foreign policy memoir and an inspiring personal family story—her immigrant Greek father went from agricultural day laborer to land developer and major Democratic party activist—Madam Ambassador by Eleni Kounalakis draws back the curtain on what it is like to represent the U.S. government abroad as well as how American embassies around the world function.
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Bill Plympton at Village Cinema
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 03: Artist Bill Plympton attends the 'Cheatin' New York Premiere at Village East Cinema on April 3, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Ben Hider/Getty Images)
If you don't know Bill's work take a look at this animation. I love it!
About "Cheatin'" - In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of Romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden "soul machine", Ella takes the form of Jake's numerous lovers, desperately fighting through malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.
Ben Hider - Event and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester