Benjamin Mendlowitz has traveled the globe for over 35 years to photograph wooden boats. He is well known throughout the boating world for his contributions to nautical publications and for his award-winning Calendar of Wooden Boats.® Mendlowitz grew up in New York City. His passion for wooden boats began during the summers of his youth at the New Jersey seashore, where he visited and was influenced by the local traditional boat builders. After graduating from Brandeis University and one year of farm work and photography in Florence, Italy, he began a photographic career in Massachusetts. In 1980, Mendlowitz photographs began appearing in WoodenBoat Magazine and in other nautical publications. A few years later, Mendlowitz formed his company, NOAH Publications, and published his first Calendar of Wooden Boats.® The company has since expanded its product line to include books, cards, and other items, all featuring Mendlowitz photographs of wooden boats. Benjamin Mendlowitz Marine Photography, a division of NOAH Publications, offers a stock photography service and custom photographic prints. He is also a founding member of OffCenterHarbor.com, a website devoted to content about classic boats and boating skills of all kinds. Mendlowitz photographs have appeared regularly on the covers of many trade and educational books, and in feature articles and on the covers of the most respected boating magazines (past and present) world-wide, including , WoodenBoat, Nautical Quarterly, Sail, Yachting, Cruising World, Motorboating, Professional Boatbuilder, Ocean Navigator, Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, Soundings, Chasse-Maree and L’annee Bateau (France), The Boatman, Classic Boat, Yachting Monthly and Maritime Life & Traditions (Britain), Canadian Yachting, Yacht (Germany), and Arte Navale (Italy). His work has also appeared in magazines such as Time, Esquire, Money, People, Atlantic Monthly, Connoisseur, Historic Preservation, Field & Stream, Down East, Yankee, Sports Illustrated, Road & Track, Men’s Journal, The London Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Graphis, Architectural Digest, Forbes Life, among many others. Benjamin has taught courses in marine photography at the Rockport Photographic Workshops and the WoodenBoat School, and is a frequent lecturer at various maritime museums and institutions. He has been the featured subject on several television shows, including Boatworks, a PBS television series; True North, Maine Public Television; Chronicle, WCVB-TV Boston; and Thalassa, a popular French program about the sea. |