On Monday evening, I got a call from my friend Jesse who had been down at Occupy Boston earlier in the day. Mayor Menino and Boston Police were telling the protestors that they could not stay at the second camp they’d started a block away from the original Dewy Square site, on the Rose Kennedy [...]
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HONK! Photo Exhibit in Davis Square
I’m honored to again be one of the photographers exhibiting photos of the HONK! Festival at the Inside/Out Gallery, in the windows outside the Davis Square CVS in Somerville, MA. The photos are on display now through the first weekend in October when the 6th Annual HONK! Festival of activist street bands comes to Somerville [...]
Lolita’s Family Photos
Check out this video about my friend Lolita’s quest for her family photographs. (DDFRtv visits Lolita Parker Jr @ Boston from Digital Diaspora Family Reunion on Vimeo.) What the video does not fully explain is that Lolita is herself a professional photographer. Though we’re both from Boston, I met Lolita in Turkey Creek, MS at Derrick [...]
Photos and Video from Honk! 2010
10/17 UPDATE: I’ve started scanning my film from Honk. I’ll be adding all the film photos to this Flickr set over the next few weeks. 10/16 UPDATE: My third batch of Honk! 2010 photos is online. 10/15 UPDATE #2: There’s a nice article by Danielle Dreilinger in today’s Boston Globe, “A look back at Honk! [...]
HONK! Photo Exhibit Opens This Saturday, Sept. 4, in Davis Square
HONK! Festival Photography Exhibit I am pleased to announce that I am one of the photographers featured in this show. Press release with more information is below. —BG Featuring work by: Greg Cook Tiffany Knight Mark Dannenhauer Jesse Edsell-Vetter Benjamin Greenberg Chris Yeager & Akos Szilvasi Exhibit runs through September 30 with an opening on Saturday, September 4, 6-8 pm in Davis Square, [...]
Land of Look Behind
When I was thirteen, my dad took me to the Film Forum, just outside the West Vilage in NYC. My cousin Alan’s first film was being shown there, a film called Land of Look Behind, a documentary about Jamaica just after Bob Marley’s death. At the time I did not know Bob Marley’s music and [...]
Local Photos
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Local Photos, originally uploaded by BenTG. How does place inhabit a person? How does landscape convey location? LOCAL PHOTOS Somerville and Cambridge, MA Seattle, WA • New Orleans, LA Mississippi Gulf [...]
Photographing
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN3591.jpg, originally uploaded by BenTG. I wish I had more time to write these days. Or maybe it’s not so much a matter of time as it is a matter of [...]
Blowed Away
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Blowed Away, originally uploaded by BenTG. Blowed Away: Trouble in the Lowlands Now showing at the Haley House Bakery Cafe Artists/Writers/Activists Walter Clark, Benjamin Greenberg, Project HIP HOP Crew, L’Merchie Frazier, [...]
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSCN2208.JPG, originally uploaded by BenTG. You may have noticed that I’ve been posting photos to HungryBlues via flickr. You’ll see now that I finally got around to adding that cool flickr [...]
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