Proscenium Fifth Anniversary Party - Cheers to 5 years
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
Event Photographer
Proscenium Fifth Anniversary Party - Cheers to 5 years
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
9/11 Memorial & Museum - Andrea Booher
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
Andrea Booher, film producer and photojournalist has worked as a documentarian for twenty-six years. Based in Colorado, her assignments have taken her to East Africa, Latin America, Micronesia, India, Antarctica, Australia, Myanmar, Somalia, Mexico and Haiti.
In the last two decades she has photo-documented every major disaster in the United States, Trust Territories and Sovereign Nations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Her documentary work resides in several permanent collections, including the National Archives and the Smithsonian. In 2001, she spent 10 weeks working at Ground Zero in the immediate aftermath of the World Trade Center attack. She was one of two photographers working for FEMA with unlimited access. Her work from 9-11 has been published in magazines, newspapers and documentaries worldwide. She was personally profiled on A&E , The History Channel, CNN, Camera Arts, NPR and Photo District News.
Booher’s work has appeared in National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, LIFE, Traveler, GEO, Outside, Sports Illustrated for Women, Smithsonian, Stern, The Atlantic Monthly, World Press and numerous other books and periodicals worldwide. In addition to her disaster work and news photos, her travel and environmental portrait photography are represented by Getty Images.
It was fantastic to photograph the opening weekend of the new show at the botanical gardens and it was such a great success.
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
American Impressionism, a prominent artistic style that flourished at the turn of the 20th century, comes to life in a captivating Garden-wide exhibition. In the Conservatory, stroll through an American Impressionist garden, a stunning interpretation by Francisca Coelho, NYBG's renowned curator and designer, of the alluring gardens that influenced iconic artists such as Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. In the Art Gallery, view a beautiful complementary display of more than 20 paintings and sculptures by these famed artists and their contemporaries that capture the colors, shadows, and ephemeral quality of light they observed in the natural world and infused in their distinctive imagery; the collection has been assembled by Guest Curator Linda S. Ferber, Ph.D., Director Emerita and Senior Art Historian of the New-York Historical Society.
Lucille Nortel Awards Red Carpet and Awards Ceremony at Skirball Center for Performing Arts at NYU on May 1, 2016 (Photo by Ben Hider)
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
Sheep Shearing at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. I am forever grateful for my working relationship with so many incredible clients, but Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is always the most amazing place to work and a really beautiful location to photograph.
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture is a non-profit farm and educational center with a partner restaurant, Blue Hill at Stone Barns, located in Pocantico Hills, New York. The Center was created on 80 acres (320,000 m2) formerly belonging to the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills by David Rockefeller and his daughter, Peggy Dulany. Stone Barns promotes sustainable agriculture, local food, and community-supported agriculture. Stone Barns is a four-season operation.
Stone Barns Center is also home to Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a restaurant that serves contemporary cuisine using local ingredients, with an emphasis on produce from the Center's farm. Blue Hill staff also participate in the Center's education programs.
9/11 Museum with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in New York City on April 2, 2016
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (/əˈliːtoʊ/; born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006.
Raised in Hamilton Township, New Jersey and educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit before joining the Supreme Court. He is the 110th justice, the second Italian American and the eleventh Roman Catholic to serve on the court. Alito is considered "one of the most conservative justices on the Court". He has been described by the Cato Institute as a conservative jurist with a libertarian streak.
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
It was great to be back on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to photograph the traders of Cuttone and Company working.