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