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<span class="text"><font color="#ffffff" class="text"> <p style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" height="200" src="/users/KeithBernstein1639/docs/Image/KB1.jpg" width="136" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> South Africa 1963</p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> I have been a photographer since leaving school, 5 days after my 18th birthday. I left South Africa aged 7; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Bernstein" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>mum</u></span></a> & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Bernstein" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>dad</u></span></a> had a few <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivonia_Trial" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>differences</u></span></a> with the government.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> I have dual British & SA nationality. I still have a home in <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u><a href="http://www.190bree.com/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); ">Cape Town</span></a></u></span> but now divide my time between Paris & Brighton.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> In '94 I spent a month as <a href="http://www.keithbernstein.co.uk/gallery.html?gallery=mandela" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>Nelson Mandela's</u></span></a> photographer in the weeks leading up to his election as President. I photographed him again in 2005 - he told me the greatest moment of his life was <a href="http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/jun2008/8/6/A1728312-A351-9836-B0A86356DEB825CE.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=500,height=300,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>meeting</u></span></a> the Spice Girls.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> I was one of a small group of photographers in <a href="http://www.keithbernstein.co.uk/gallery.html?gallery=somalia" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>Mogadishu, Somalia,</u></span></a> when an American military operation went madly wrong; Ridley Scott's film <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNZeXSlT5Lk" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>Blackhawk Down</u></span></a> is based on the events of those 48 hours.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> In 2008 I was the photographer on the film <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7302913.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>Anthony Minghella</u></span></a> directed shortly before his death - <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBbec34PK04&eurl=http://www.blackfilm.com/20080111/features/theno1detectiveagency.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); ">The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency</span></a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBbec34PK04&eurl=http://www.blackfilm.com/20080111/features/theno1detectiveagency.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=600,height=400,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); ">.</span></a></u></span> Anthony was the intersection of greatness and kindness. I have recently finished a 14 week shoot on <a href="http://www.keithbernstein.co.uk/gallery.html?gallery=the%20prisoner" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>The Prisoner</u></span></a> with <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAAca108HfU" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=600,height=500,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); ">Jim Cavieze</span></a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAAca108HfU" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=600,height=500,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); ">l</span></a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>,</u><span style="color:#fff;"> and </span></span>10 weeks shooting Clint Eastwood's new film <span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Ovkye6lac" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); ">Invictus</span></a></u></span> with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=pMXYufre9Do&feature=related" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); ">Morgan Freeman</span></a> &<span style="color:#0ff;"> <span style="color:#fff;">Matt Damon.</span></span> I am currently shooting on Halle Berry's new film.</p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> The roulette wheel has spun many awards my way; Nikon Press Photographer of the Year twice in successive years, 3 World Press awards, 3 bits of paper from the Association of Photographers and numerous plaques and pieces of cut glass from Fuji, Ilford & Kodak. My work has regularly appeared in many <a href="http://www.keithbernstein.co.uk/gallery.html?gallery=in%20print" onclick="window.open(this.href,'','resizable=yes,location=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,fullscreen=no,dependent=no,width=800,height=600,status'); return false"><span style="color: rgb(0, 255, 255); "><u>internationally known magazines.</u></span></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify; "> Now here's the thing. As soon as I was old enough to know what a job was - around the age of 12 or 13 - I wanted to be a photographer, and nothing has changed in the 30+ years since then. I adore my job. Even the occasional days that behave like rats in a bag.</p> </font></span><br> <h1> Film and television unit stills photographer</h1>
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