“When I joined the Army in 1998, I knew I wanted to capture my travels as a visual journal. I remembered my Grandfather telling me stories of his childhood and his stories of his experience in the U.S. Navy while serving on the USS Salt Lake City during WW2. I did what he did but recorded it with a camera, and photography became an addiction.
I was raised an Air Force Brat and traveled the world in my younger years. With my years in the Military and deployments to the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq, I started to capture more and more. At some point, I realized that I wasn’t only creating a journal, but I was telling a story through images. This is what I want to do with every image I take now. I want a friend, stranger, child or even a customer/consumer to be pulled into it and to feel it.”
Benjamin Altenes of Utah, a Diplomatic Security Officer with the Department of State is one the “Best in Show” photographers from Art in Embassies and Department of Defense “Serving Abroad…Through Their Eyes” photography exhibition.
Website
https://www.benaltenesphoto.com
