White Trash Contemporary

“This is photography as emotion. Jerry goes somewhere and makes you feel what it felt like, not just what it looked like.” Eugene Richards, photographer (Magnum)

Jerry Berndt was born 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more than 30 years he has built a career as a documentary photographer with series on the genocide in Ruanda, civil war in Haiti und homeless people in the US. His pictures are published in major publications in the US and Europe, i.e. the New York Times, Newsweek und Paris Match. His work won major awards, i.e. grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the University of California. His photos are represented in the permanant collections of major museums like the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Bibliotheque National in Paris. He taught photography at the Art Institute in Boston and at Univeristy of Massachusetts. Today Berndt lives with his wife and son in Paris, France.

JERRY BERNDT

CZ 13

Washington Street, Boston,MA, 1968, Silver-gelatine print, 16 by 20 inches,
edition of 12+3AP"s, printed by BJ 2007

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