Bluestone Lane Coffee in Hoboken

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There seems to be no stopping Bluestone Lane who are constantly opening beautiful coffee shops in great neighborhoods, this time they move to New Jersey where I was able to photograph the impeccably designed new coffee shop.

Shot with the Fujifilm GFX 50S with 63mm F.28 lens and a Canon 5D Mark IV with 16-35mm F2.8iii

Food Photographer Ben Hider

Minnie Mouse gets a makeover

Back when I photographed a lot more press events, I used to go to the empire state building and cover the lighting ceremony. I never really thought the Minnie Mouse photos were ever going to run and then Minnie gets a makeover! On the left is my photo from Getty Images.

Press Photographer Ben Hider

Guggenheim Museum

Definitely one of my favorite new clients this year is the Guggenheim Museum, I can't show any of the content I produce for them, but I always love photographing some exterior images of this incredible Frank Lloyd Wright building,

Shot with a Canon 5D Mark IV and 16-35mm F2.8 iii and 70-200 F2.8 ii

Event Photographer Ben Hider

Sirius XM at the Comedy Cellar in 2013

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Before I had kids I used to photograph much more entertainment jobs in the evening and some of these Sirius XM comedy nights were some of my favorite. Especially this particular evening in 2013 where Matt Damon was the surprise guest and Amy Schumer did some incredible stand up routine.

NYC Event Photographer Ben Hider

City Harvest Skip Lunch Fight Hunger

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You spend $15 on lunch because you live in New York City. You feed 60 kids with $15 because you’re a New Yorker. And with nearly 420,000 in our city facing hunger, you know you’re going to do something about it. 

Event and Food Photographer Ben Hider

Portrait of Nina Beaty for Care Magazine

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This week was assigned a portrait shoot for Care Magazine of Nina Beaty who is a Lung Cancer Survivor. Her story is really fascinating, starting with a family history that embedded with Broadway royalty, her grandfather was Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers and Hammerstein). After a chance encounter with a doctor who was treating her mother and a very luckily timed scan, she caught her cancer at just the right time to be detected and is doing great on a trial immunotherapy treatment.

Shot with the Fujifilm GFX 50S and 63mm F2.8 lens and lighting is sometime window light and sometime Profoto B2's.

Portrait Photographer Ben Hider

Portrait of Geoffrey Zakarian for City Harvest

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I'm so glad we rescheduled this shoot for after the snow storm that happened a couple of weeks ago. It was still freezing cold but the photos don't show that. Geoffrey Zakarian was super to work with and being able to photograph an Iron Chef and Food Network celebrity is like winning the Super Bowl for me.

Shot with a Canon 5D Mark IV and 24-70mm F2.8 lens. Light is a Profoto B2 with a large profoto deep umbrella.

Portrait Photographer Ben Hider

First Day of Spring

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On a slightly lighter note than the previous post, today is the first day of spring. Here are some more photographs from yesterdays Poultry School at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.

Food Photographer Ben Hider