Benjamin Rasmussen

Biography

Benjamin Rasmussen is a Denver-​based photographer whose work has been shown at the Annenberg Space for Photography. In 2010 he received an award from Pictures of the Year International, and he was included on the 2011 and 2012 lists of Flash Forward–Emerging Photographers.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Winter 2018

Codes of Exclusion

Photography by Benjamin Rasmussen ,  Essay by Rebecca Onion
LEFT: A brass coin created and distributed in 1940 by Hugh T. Fisher, a former member of the Kansas senate, to stimulate “democratic thinking” in Kansans. RIGHT: Ferguson youth activist Dontey Carter. “This isn’t just a stand for Michael Brown. This is a stand for everybody that needs justice. The officers need to protect and serve, not reject and keep us scared. We need this and that is why as young people this is our civil rights movement. We will take it all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to.”
PHOTOGRAPHY / Summer 2013

Summer on the Island

Photography by Benjamin Rasmussen

The Faroese are a storytelling people, with ancestries tracing back to Nordic and Irish lines and a history etched in bloody Icelandic sagas. For centuries, fishing has been a pillar of the Faroese livelihood and economy.