ABOUT ME

Express description: My name is Ben. I was born Veniamin. Now I am sometimes called Benjamín. I am a documentary photographer and also a Spanish Interpreter.

Longer version: I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia when it was still called Leningrad, and at age nine moved to Chicago, USA with my family. After nine years there I moved to Miami, then to Tucson, Arizona, and then lived for years, off and on in Colombia with a two year stint in Argentina. The last four years I have been living near San Francisco, California working as a mostly freelance Spanish (and occasionally Russian) translator/interpreter. For a long time I have been working on photographic projects, and occasionally filming, in places like the deserts of northern Mexico, Haiti, Pacific Coast of Colombia, Somaliland and beyond.

兴趣

literature, theatre, film, photography, hiking, backpacking, mountains, bike touring

• literature
• photography
• documentaries
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• freelancing
• languages
• mountains

音乐、电影和书籍

Kafka, Love in the Time of Cholera, Cat's Cradle, Lolita, Teachings of Don Juan, Dogville, Amorres Perros, Santa Sangre, Sacred Mountain, Dreamers, Grizzlyman, 8 1/2, Sarajevo, Salvador, Manu Chao, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, The Cranberries, Kronos Quartet, Phillip Glass, The Beatles, Marley, The Doors, The Police, Stereolab, Radiohead, Pernett, Portishead, Bjork, Mercedes Sosa, Samba, Bossa Nova, Air, Mum, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Jorge Ben, Calexico, Carlinhos Brown, Tango, Vallenato, Reggeton, Jorge Drexler

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

A taxi driver who dropped me off at a hotel in Mexico City after the ride from the airport surprised me half an hour later by stopping by with his wife who brought me a sandwich and a bottle of milk. Hard to forget. And so many similar kind acts all over the place.

教，学，和分享

English, Russian, Spanish, photography

我游览过的国家

Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Somalia

我居住过的国家

Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Russian Federation, United States

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