Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks speaks at the 9/11 Memorial

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks speaks at the 9/11 Memorial - Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth, recently won the 2016 Templeton Prize for his efforts to counter religious extremism. Previous Templeton Prize winners include Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama. Sacks, author of the bestselling book "Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence," explores the complex connection between religion and violence, the influence of extremism on young adults, and the potential of faith to promote peace.

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

One World Observatory at One World Trade Center

One World Observatory at One World Trade Center

I highly recommend visiting See Forever at One World Observatory at One World Trade Center. It's an amazing experience, starting with the elevator ride that shows you soaring above a rapidly developing New York City and ending with this spectacular sunset over all of Manhattan.

Prudential New York Conference

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Prudential New York Conference - If you haven't gone to the top of One World Trade to see the Observatory, I would highly recommend it. There's an incredible 360 gallery and a lot of fantastic photo opportunities, especially when the sun is setting her New Jersey. Prudential hold their annual conference in New York City and this year they were at the Conrad Hotel in Battery Park, New York.

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

Poultry School at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture

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Poultry School at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture - Raising pastured birds for soil health and flavor.

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

Poultry School is a two-day intensive of classroom and hands-on workshops, guest speakers, and round table discussions to explore current issues, methods and technologies in raising pastured poultry including layer- chickens, meat-chickens, turkeys and geese. We’re thrilled to have a wonderful lineup of workshops, taught by leading experts in raising, caring for and processing poultry.

ISE Head Shot Day 2

ISE Head Shot Day 2 - I spent another day down in the financial district of NYC shooting portraits of International Securities Exchange.

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

City Harvest Homepage Photo

City Harvest - It's always a nice surprise to see my work featured so prominently on a website. I know when I worked for City Harvest that they were looking to update their website, but the lead image on such an amazing organization is still nice to see.

Heineken Product Photography

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Heineken Product Photography in White Plains, NY

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

Heineken Product Photography

Strongbow is a dry cider produced by H. P. Bulmer in England since 1962. The dry cider is the world's leading cider with a 15 per cent volume share of the global cider market, and a 29 per cent volume share of the UK cider market. Bulmer's is a subsidiary of Heineken International, the multinational Dutch brewer.

In 2011, Strongbow Gold, produced in Belgium, was launched across Europe in response to cider's growing popularity on the continent. In 2012, Strongbow was the highest selling cider in Australia, and was the second highest selling cider in North America.

The majority of Strongbow is produced at Bulmer's Hereford plant, although regional variations are also produced at Heineken's cider mill in Belgium, and in Australia, where SABMiller own the rights to the brand.

In 2014, the original Strongbow dry cider was discontinued in the USA by Heineken and replaced with two new sweeter variants.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve visits the 9/11 Memorial

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve visits the 9/11 Memorial

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

Bernard Cazeneuve (born June 2, 1963) is a French Socialist politician and current Minister of the Interior. Born in Senlis, Oise, Cazeneuve rose to prominence with his election as a deputy of the National Assembly representing the 5th constituency of Manche in 1997, and as mayor of Cherbourg-Octeville in 2001.

In 2012, he was appointed Minister of State for European Affairs in the first Ayrault Government, and in 2013 was named Minister of State for the Budget in the second Ayrault Government after the resignation of Jérôme Cahuzac. On April 2, 2014 he was appointed the 42nd Minister of the Interior in the First Valls Government, a role he retained on August 27, 2014 with the formation of the Second Valls Government.

ISE Head Shot Day 1

ISE Head Shot Day 1 - With a full day of head shots we can get through about 40 or 50 people comfortably. We give each person the opportunity to review, select or even retake the final image. ISE also hired a make up artist for the day which is always highly recommended. Please feel free to reach out for headshot booking availability and rates.

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

A head shot or headshot is a specific type of portrait (usually a photograph) that realistically demonstrates a person's appearance for branding or casting.

Corporate and business Head Shots - Corporate head shots are portraits often produced digitally and used for engaging in social media, the about us page and industry specialty sites. A Headshot or Head Shot is often used for branding and to showcase the business leaders life, style and personality while Corporations will use the headshot to merge branding between the people working for them and its agency. Traditional head shots are still taken in a studio setting, though shots "on-location" or "in-the-field" continue to increase in popularity. In both cases, backgrounds tend to be simple. Subjects are often shown head-to-chest or head-to-torso.

Corporate head shots serve a variety of purposes:

• Annual reports
• LinkedIn personal profiles as well as publisher profiles
• Facebook
• About us Page
• (Nonstandard) résumés
• Corporate catalogs, brochures and advertising collateral
• Company publications and websites, internal and external
• Press releases and other announcements
• Marketing materials
• Articles and newspapers
• Author pages

Tibetan Uprising Day in New York City - March 10, 2016

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Tibetan Uprising Day in New York City - March 10, 2016. I lived in Dharmsala for a year in 2002 - 2003 working for the Tibet Museum that managed the personal photography archive of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. It was a life changing experience, archiving and documenting the historic documents of the cultural destruction that was seen in Tibet since the middle of last century. I worked closely with the Tibetan Government in Exile and made many life long friends in the small Himalayan village known as McLeod Ganj. It's always a solemn reminder on March 10 and an opportunity for me to look back on that experience. It was particularly special to hear Robert Thurman speak this year as I have read some of his books, or attempted to wrap my head around the vast texts on Tibetan Buddhism that he has written.

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

Tibetan Uprising Day, observed on March 10, commemorates the 1959 Tibetan uprising against the presence of the People's Republic of China in Tibet. The failure of the armed rebellion ultimately resulted in a violent crackdown on Tibetan independence movements, and the flight of the Dalai LamaTenzin Gyatso into exile.

Tibetan Uprising Day is observed primarily by organizations and individuals who support Tibet such as Students for a Free Tibet, and is often accompanied by the release of a statement by the Dalai Lama. Tibetan independence groups often organize protests or campaigns on March 10 to draw attention to the situation in Tibet.

In 2008, a series of riots and violent clashes broke out in the Tibetan city of Lhasa when monks were arrested during peaceful demonstrations.[5] The events in Lhasa triggered a nationwide uprising with protests occurring in every region. The Central Tibetan Administration estimates the number of Protests to have occurred in 2008 to be 336.