North Shore Photography Lecture Series
co-sponsored by
Sweethaven Gallery
and
Firehouse Center for the Arts
Thursday, February 1, 2018
7:00 – 8:30 P.M.
Tickets: Adults $10.00 – Students $5.00
+ $2.00 ticketing fee
The problem with any shooter, like myself, that is constantly working, is we forget to get off the train at multiple stops – instead it’s been a race from the start to the last stop.
A trip to Mexico City to spend a couple of day working on a project for the Broad institute, I had the privilege to photograph Señor Carlos Slim, at that time the richest man in the world. It was a career changing experience. Here I was with a man worth upwards of 87 billion dollars, but soon discovered that his real worth was his wisdom. We talked a bit and he shared with me some words for my children. We discussed the difference between writing a check at tax time and the virtue of giving of yourself, your time. I returned to Boston and embarked on a new direction of choosing a different non-profit organization each year to do a pro bono portrait series. I was stepping back into the studio and exploring a new dramatic photographic direction that not only challenged me photographically, but also socially. The first year I did a series of profile images for Special Olympics, that was displayed as life size images during their gala at the ICA and outside media. The next year I worked with the Friendship House. They provide services to enhance the emotional, behavioral, and social well-being of children. I next embarked on a campaign for Spare Change, the Cambridge newspaper for the homeless.
My current project is working for ROCA, an organization using a four-year intervention model for the highest-risk young people. I will tell anyone that will listen these have been some of the most rewarding shoots of my career—and I feel the work shows it. I’m humbled by the response from the people that have allowed me into their lives—and to them I say thank you.
About Len Rubenstein
It has been a great ride. It’s going stronger than ever.
I get to live in other people’s worlds, be it for five minutes, a day or a week. Some are newborns, some are cadavers, some in amazing homes, some are homeless, the richest man in the world money-wise, and the richest people family-wise. It doesn’t matter, they all have a story to tell, and I have been fortunate to have had the opportunity to document it.
I’m as passionate today as when I started. I live in a small Irish sea town twenty miles south of Boston called Scituate. The locals call me O’Rubenstein.
My job, “a great dinnertime conversation”.
I have many of you to thank. “Thank You”
Clients include: American Express, Aetna , Bank One, Bank of Tokyo, Bausch & Lomb, Biogen, Blackstone Group, Campbell Soup Company, Charles River Labs, Deutsche Bank, Disney, Fidelity, Fleet, Genzyme, GTE, IBM, Liberty Mutual, Marriott, Merrill Lynch, Novell, and Reebok.
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