Ben's professional career started with an internship at an advertising photographer's studio in his senior year of high school and summers working for a Life magazine staff photographer. Following several years assisting numerous NYC photographers and two years as first assistant to Burt Glinn, a member of the Magnum agency, he struck out on his own. After years of shooting annual reports, brochures and portraits for newspapers and magazines he started Foto-Aid, a photographic agency doing assignment photography for nonprofit organizations. Ben is also Adobe Lightroom certified. He lives and works in Brooklyn with his wife, a jewelry designer and their two sons. You can see Ben's work at: www.benrussellphoto.com