Rhode Island

Richard Benjamin is a native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. In 1960, he left Brown University to join the U.S. Army. For three years he worked in Germany as an army publicity photographer. Back in the States, he was a photojournalist at the Times Union and Democrat and Chronicle newspapers in Rochester, New York, and Newsday on Long Island before joining the Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin in 1969. Benjamin took early retirement in 1996 and began a second career as a landscape photographer. Fine art prints of his photographs, which have appeared on calendars, are sold exclusively through Picture This Galleries in Providence and Wakefield, Rhode Island. He lives in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.Benjamin, Richard is the author of 'Rhode Island', published 2004 under ISBN 9781889833835 and ISBN 1889833835.