H. Allen Benowitz

Profile

My private passion for photography is motivated by my love of life.  My purpose is to capture and share my visual adventures and travels with you.

 

My initial attraction to photography started as a child.  I enjoyed taking candid shots of my friends at the children’s home where I was raised.  As an adult, reflecting on my childhood, I realized that I needed to capture these images as something to hold on to; these friends were my real family and the pattern has continued into adulthood.

 

My early passion resurfaced one morning upon seeing my six-year old son and our black and white springer spaniel bathed in a sunbeam through an amber stained-glass window.  I captured the moment in a photograph which received honorable mention in the International Kodak Contest.  That “Kodak moment” reawakened those early desires.

 

When a local professor of art urged me to enter my work at the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum’s Beaux Arts Festival, I was astounded and flattered to win a judges’ award for a photo taken of a wood duck at the Bok Tower reflection pool in Lake Wales, Florida.  Over the years, my work has appeared in numerous publications of the Miami Ski Club, The Florida Court Reporter, and the Society for the Technological Advancement of Reporting.

 

I soon realized that something I loved was being appreciated by others. This newfound credibility launched a more serious focus on an unrealized talent.

 

A pioneer in my own court reporting profession, I was credited with performing the first videotape deposition in the nation, and later founding the first videoconference network in the United States for the legal community. 

 

Having captured the spoken word and memorializing same on paper, and later on disk, the camera became a natural segue and my eye for detail moved from the courtroom to the world.

                         

I consider myself a life sampler, which is reflected in the variety of my work. Inspired by a recent trip to the Orient, in addition to color photography, I have rediscovered the dramatic effect of black and white images.

 

Please enjoy the additional passion for which I feel truly blessed.

 

H. Allen Benowitz

 

Awards & Honors

1] International Kodak Contest, Honorable Mention 1976 ["Blue Boy/Dog"]
2] Beaux Arts Festival, Judges' Award 1980 ["Wood Duck"]
3] One Ear Society, 2nd Place B/W Photography 2003 ["Lakeside Solitude"]
4] Miami Herald Photo Contest, Miami, FL, Hon. Mention 2003
5] Holland & Knight's Holocaust Remembrance Project 2003 ["Behind The Wall"]; [Honored by William Sessions]