About Martin A. Bienstock
Martin Bienstock has been a New York City Marshal for the past 32 years. He was born in New York City and grew up in a working class family in Brooklyn. In 1968-69, he served in the First Air Calvary Division in Vietnam. It was there that his passion for photography first emerged. It was a way of making sense out of the chaos surrounding him.
Martin’s interest in photography re-emerged years later through a friend who shot professionally. He shadowed him around on shoots to discover what to look at through the viewfinder. He was always fascinated by landscape, especially the classic American landscapes captured by gifted photographers like Ansel Adams. This fascination led to trips through Colorado, Utah, Oregon, New Mexico, California and Washington State to explore the ghost towns of the Old West.
These ghost towns caused ghosts of his own past to re-emerge and propelled him on to additional photography adventures in Kiev, Norway, Berlin, and throughout the Midwest and western United States. Now he is thankful to be at a place in his life in which photography is not only a passionate outlet for himself but an enjoyment he can share.
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