https://www.benlenzner.com/homepage daily 1.0 2017-10-26 https://www.benlenzner.com/film daily 0.75 2025-11-17 https://www.benlenzner.com/photography daily 0.75 2018-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516890949892-9R0SOO6OMHB17Y1Y74WG/john1.jpg Photography - John New York is the most populous city in the United States. The anonymity of living in New York is perfectly normal to the 10 million residents of the city. Rarely do New Yorkers get to know the individuals they share a roof with, their neighbors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516890518872-CF8IOE2X5KDAWMTQA298/columbia+expansion+sign.jpg Photography - Columbia Columbia University is in the midst of completing a massive campus on border of Harlem and Morningside Heights. Years of community resistance couldn't withstand the influence of this imposing institution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516889536821-6VVMLY3X54IR381AHNPA/jose+380%2817%29.jpg Photography - José New York is the most populous city in the United States. The anonymity of living in New York is perfectly normal to the 10 million residents of the city. Rarely do New Yorkers get to know the individuals they share a roof with, their neighbors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516889547495-DN2TQ7NZUT67NOB3PHRI/125th+wall2.jpg Photography - 125th Street A block from the Hudson River and on the cusp of the large block of land where Columbia aimed to build its new campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516888759203-N7Q8YI1M4SDP4BHLKZ4L/lucy2%2818%29.jpg Photography - Lucy New York is the most populous city in the United States. The anonymity of living in New York is perfectly normal to the 10 million residents of the city. Rarely do New Yorkers get to know the individuals they share a roof with, their neighbors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516889584247-59KNQA0VYG0Y519HQWFZ/expansion+tree.jpg Photography - Tree & Bus Depot A tree beside the 125th Street Bus Depot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516889532499-A3VLM4UASE11CW16NJR9/alberto+380%2816%29.jpg Photography - Alberto New York is the most populous city in the United States. The anonymity of living in New York is perfectly normal to the 10 million residents of the city. Rarely do New Yorkers get to know the individuals they share a roof with, their neighbors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516890203131-43H29DBZYZPPN9JJM5KG/125th+pipe.jpg Photography - Forms Pipes, gates & walls on the border of Harlem and Morningside Heights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894475694-Z5MKLG4JWZ88B5A0HEQF/%2317-fire.bomvu.jpg Photography - Beside the Indian Ocean Coffee Bay, South Africa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894524849-0C9S9NO1YYXNKE24SWHU/SA-30%2318A-sleeping+print%2845%29.jpg Photography - New Delhi, India As streetlights illuminate a late evening in Connaught Place, the capital’s commercial center, a driver sleeps on the roof of his rickshaw. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894481879-RTNWI9HH3VZHSY8GDNIV/A-17vietpool%2851%29.jpg Photography - After the Storm In Vietnam, the contrast between rich and poor can be startling. Near the South China Sea, a man cleans the flooded yard of his home after a storm. A wall is all that separates his home from the clear water of a fancy hotel pool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894491183-BSBSHBJ8K1HT6DYW1UXL/cape.graffiti%2827%29.jpg Photography - Cape Town, South Africa In South Africa, the scars of apartheid are deep. From the townships, kilometers removed from city centers to the distinct and real separation between communities, South Africa is a nation slowly healing. Every day, the memory of apartheid is unmistakably real. Throughout Cape Town, the contrast between the present and the past can be found in many forms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894494574-HRW0FJEVQPSFUH9HO6MS/frisbee%2846%29.jpg Photography - Ultimate Frisbee, Alappuzha, Kerala I met the members of one of India's only Ultimate Frisbee Associations on the beach in Allepey. These boys were mad for frisbee. Every evening at sunset they would meet at the beach and throw two or three frisbees at a time, high in the air and out into the sea. The wind would carry the frisbees back toward the sandy beach and these guys would run like mad, leaping and diving to catch these frisbees. After the sun set, the wind would die down and they'd play catch under an enormous floodlight that lit up the beach until midnight. I joined them for a few evenings and we'd talk about how to get their love of the flying disc to the billion plus people in India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894503599-4A6FCKEBB77X53K2ZZNW/himalayan+prayer%2841%29.jpg Photography - Gangotri, Uttarakhand, India In 2006, I went trekking in Gangotri with a dear friend... 'Two weeks ago my friend Nick and I packed up our bags with the essentials- warm clothes, dry food (badam, kishmish, chocolate and kaju), sleeping bag and iodine pills. We jumped on a bus and six hours later stopped in the beautiful mountain town of Uttarkashi. We headed to the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, rented a tent, purchased a butane stove and then jumped in a Tata Sumo the next morning and made our way to the sacred Gangotri Mandir and then onto Goumukh, the glacier that is the beginning of the mighty Ganges River. Right now is summer school vacation here in India and there were many Indian tourists making the pilgrimage to Gangotri and the surrounding char dham yatra, four of the most sacred and holy places in India for Hindus. Tourists flocked by private bus and many sadhus made the pilgrimage barefoot, walking thousands of kilometres just to reach and see this place. Nick and I were decked out in woolens and more, and it was amazing to pass by these barefoot sadhus in the cold, wothout shoes and covered in thin flowing cloth. Nick and I had big backpacks full of food, clothes and assorted items for eight days in the backcountry. Over the course of the week we hiked almost eighty kilometres. We climbed steep scree cliffs and crossed the massive Gangotri Glacier which currently is covered in boulders and crevasses, basically a maze of glacial moraine. We camped at 12,0000 feet then 14,000 feet and finally at the highest point 15,000 feet. We slept on beautiful high altitude meadows and we were greeted by wild ibex every morning. Fresh glacier water ran in streams through these meadows. In the morning the streams were small but by the evening, as the glacier melted, the streams rushed and overflowed with water. Sleeping was a problem and although it's around 35 degrees celcius here in Dehradun, at 15,000 feet the thermometer dropped to -4, -5 degrees celcius. It was tough to sleep and the altitude certainly slowed us down. The peaks surrounding us were all over 22,0000 feet, humbling and reminding us the massive scale of the Himalayas. The wind, the stars, the moon and the streams, lulled us into a trance. The break from the hustle and bustle of the Indian Concrete Jungle was much needed. We ran into Hindu saints and sadhus and a mata-ji running an ashram at 13,000 feet, tucked and hidden in a old cave where Shiv-ji must have lived.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894517169-762HW6720LG0QRNANCOK/roll32-+%2310+%2828%29.jpg Photography - Langa Township, South Africa The township of Langa is home to a quarter of a million people. Langa lies beside the N2 highway that connects downtown Cape Town and the international airport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894527363-901DJAT6LYE2ATXWGVEV/wisconsin%2813x19%29.jpg Photography - Athens, Wisconsin A barn at night on a farm in Wisconsin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894511588-DAFT42CNM8CS0J39PZG3/roll5%2329A-st.louisboat%2811x17%29.jpg Photography - St. Louis, Senegal Near the border of Senegal and Mauritania, Spring 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894457826-13246E3Q7XGLJ809GA4Z/%233-plateau+plant%28sur-16%29.jpg Photography - The Puna Plateau Northwest Argentina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516896318055-3LWYT555UF174J0CHO06/ps+67+mohegan+school%2821%29.jpg Photography - Bronx, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1516894463299-B7KP1IHI9T0190F2YO33/%234-estadio+de+copa+mundial%2849%29.jpg Photography - Estadio Centenario Shadows illuminate the walls of Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034455378-BSWU7MFDNDQC1OE67MEB/IMG_5146%281%29.jpg Photography - Lal Sain, Van Gujjar Community Leader In January 2008, the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act was passed in the Indian Parliament. The first comprehensive indigenous land rights act ever passed in India, this bill gives indigenous groups the power to finally claim rights to their traditional homelands. Van Gujjars, an indigenous forest dwelling nomadic buffalo herding community, are at the forefront of this struggle. Navigating to secure their forest rights, complicated by their bi-yearly migration and their minority status as Muslims, this community is straddling the line between their indigenous rights and a desire to cease their migration and move into one of two settlement colonies built by the Indian government. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034472417-YB2SY6TXNLC1W3GUDIK0/IMG_7397%282%29.jpg Photography - Signing By Thumb The majority of the Van Gujjar community has lived remotely in the forests of northern India for generations. Each and every summer, Van Gujjar families migrate to the Himalayas. A way of life for centuries, state governments in India have begun to test the validity of each family's forest permit. These permits date back to 1937, when India was still a British colony. In the spring of 2008, 91 families were denied entry into Govind Pashu Vihar National Park. This legal discrepancy threatened to deny them access to their indigenous homeland and the chance at claiming the land under the Forest Rights Act. Illiteracy and the lack of formal education is rampant throughout this community. Even today, many children do not have access to government schools. The nomadic life makes it difficult to secure consistent schooling or access health care on a continuous basis. Dumon (left), a Van Gujjar leader, signs an appeal letter to the Uttarakhand State Chief Minister requesting access to his summer "dehra" home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034478720-AI02O25B09QS0HPGUGZE/IMG_8002%283%29.jpg Photography - Islam and Buffalo Dumon (right), a Van Gujjar leader from the Sansara region of the Shivalik Mountains, owns forty buffalo. Although output varies throughout the year, Dumon can rely on making a minimum of 200 rupees ($5) a day from the milk his buffalo produce. The selling and trading of buffalo milk sustains the Van Gujjar community. Dumon has seven children and Islam plays a defining role in his family's life. Islam and buffalo are two pivotal values that are vital and omnipresent within the Van Gujjar community. Dumon's brother, Yusuf (left), prays Namaz as Dumon herds their buffalo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034457593-154M5G98FA57Y0W5833G/IMG_5639%284%29.jpg Photography - Testing the Fat Content of Buffalo Milk The Van Gujjar community relies solely on the income from the milk their buffalo produce. An intricate system of bicycles, motorbikes and feet power delivers fresh milk daily from the forest to the small roadside village of Mohand. From this village, milk is distributed throughout the state capital of Dehradun, less than an hour away. Here, a local NGO worker tests the fat content of a day's worth of buffalo milk. This daily testing is vital for pricing. Every two weeks, Van Gujjar families who supply milk for the NGO milk program arrive in Mohand for their bi-monthly payments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034457695-1VT279F5YKJ75NQ6II18/IMG_6104%285%29.jpg Photography - A Bride During  a Wedding, Gindikhatta Basti The Indian government has offered Van Gujjar families, a home and land for free, in exchange for a signature from each family agreeing never to return to their nomadic life in the forest. In response to this offer, many Van Gujjar families have shifted to the Gindikhatta Basti, a settlement colony located outside of the holy Hindu city of Haridwar. In the Gindikhatta Basti, many traditions from the forest have continued to persevere. The Van Gujjar marriage ceremony is an important celebration that has sustained distinct Van Gujjar characteristics. As the next generation is raised in the settlement colony, there is a fear that these forest traditions will fade. The loss of the Van Gujjar identity and the slow evaporation of the Gujjari language are pressing concerns within the community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034459242-CP8HOM4Y2TXNNEN82EEW/IMG_6235%286%29.jpg Photography - Reciting a Poem in Arabic, Gindikhatta Basti As Van Gujjar families have shifted from the forest to this settlement colony, the once daily routine of forest life has been uprooted and cannot be transported to the basti. Although the community has resettled on the plains, into a very different environment, with land and a home to live in, the government hasn’t supported the community with the education or means to adapt and survive to this changing situation. Unemployment and depression runs rampant and conservative Islam has made a deep impact within Gindikhatta. In this basti, the majority of children attend school at the madrassa. Attendance at the government school, which is within sight of the madrassa, pales in comparison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034474801-PWPEYLD0SBCSHYIIUNYN/IMG_7788%287%29.jpg Photography - Mobile Range in the Shivalik Range Under the cover of darkness, as the full moon illuminates the sandstone rock faces of the Shivalik Mountains, Dumon checks his mobile to see if he gets a signal. Hoping for an update on whether his family will be allowed to migrate to Govind Pashu Vihar National Park, Dumon is eager to move quickly. Already his family has been delayed two weeks, water is becoming scarce and food is in short supply for both his family and his buffalo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034480717-IRLH2VR56NN6FIBZQMZ0/IMG_8196%288%29.jpg Photography - Pressure on the Government Using the local media as a resource, Pheroz accepts the role of Van Gujjar spokesman. The day after this interview, the Uttarakhand state government gave written permission for 91 families to continue their migration and reside in their high altitude migratory homes within the boundaries of a newly created wildlife sanctuary in Govind Pashu Vihar National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034480871-HFZH3UNP7S6R76FKYUVJ/IMG_8285%289%29.jpg Photography - Preparing to Migrate at 2 am Mustoo saddles a donkey at 2 am as multiple forest fires rage on the horizon in the Shivalik Mountains. These fires burn directly in the path Mustoo and his family followed only days before. After a bowl of chai, the family organizes their possessions and loads the pack animals. They will cover 15 kilometers by dawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034482899-AW6O421L0B77ETQVR7DN/IMG_8371%2810%29.jpg Photography - As India Sleeps, Families and Buffalo Migrate The Van Gujjar migration begins in the state of Uttar Pradesh and ends near snow line on beautiful alpine meadows in the states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Migrating both in the forest and on paved roads, the community travels in groups. Extended families take advantage of cool air, minimal traffic and the quiet calm of night to migrate safely. At times up to ten extended families and hundreds of buffalo will move together through the still of the night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034486017-HHQ653PK46ZXP94YA0NL/IMG_8670%2811%29.jpg Photography - Midday Rest with a Travelling Salesman Mohammed Alam (left) and his daughter rest in their migratory home, a black plastic tarp with holes that the sun and rain easily penetrates. As Mohammed’s daughter lies on his arm, a travelling salesman packs up his bundle of hand stitched clothes. These salesmen wait for Van Gujjar families at strategic points along the migration route with clothes specifially tailored to the Van Gujjar community- wonderfully patterned lungis (sarong like wraps) and long sleeve kurta pajama tops for the men and bright colored thick salwar kameez for the women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034486331-GDDFDF6VY3FY1U6YUAZ6/IMG_8787%2812%29.jpg Photography - A Moment to Relax Before the Himalayas At the Yamuna Bridge, two Van Gujjar girls play stones as a man squats while watching the activity of the various Van Gujjar families below. Yamuna Bridge is the last stop before the migration moves into the high Himalayan mountains. Three weeks still remain on the migration route. Every night, each family will sleep on the side of the road and eat small portions of potatoes and roti as sustenance. By the end of May, these families will have reached their alpine "bugiyals" meadows. In the last week of September, these same families will reverse their route and return to the plains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034468556-OYM22XNS8YUI01S8QJOD/IMG_6703%2813%29.jpg Photography - Pheroz Kasam With the help of a local NGO, in the spring of 2008, I conducted two photography programs in the Van Gujjar community. Approximately 60 cameras were distributed evenly between men, women and children living in the forests of the Shivalik Mountains and those families living in the Gindikhatta Settlement Colony. The community responded enthusiastically, exploring their lives with these simple cameras. This is Pheroz Kasam. He is a Van Gujjar leader and was a student in the photography program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034464364-5AY0AX9OU36RSPY562C5/IMG_6487%2814%29_1.jpg Photography - Kahtoon Bibi Kahtoon was part of the photography project that took place in the Gindikhatta Settlement Colony. 30 cameras were distributed in Gindikhatta. The images snapped during the program offer insight and a view into a distinct indigenous reality of today’s modern India. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034456008-P4YW02AMAHFYDPR5KBEV/IMG_5162.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034461232-V1EQHR6WG32XW5Q4VAU2/IMG_6412.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034466369-T4E29HOQ1FC0OMYD55ZK/IMG_6513%2813%29_1.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034469796-KQD4DESHYOAHEJLUV0P7/IMG_6721.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034471180-3FSTRTEGUDA3LA4Z75O0/IMG_6893.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034474325-MQ967Q4U079K5P2WDIG7/IMG_7400.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034477924-CRAY5E6UEA80FQ3TWT3Q/IMG_7806.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509034483817-CPBW0ARYAHYC5VMZ3L6C/IMG_8612.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509099109946-EOQ88HP6TKOX88ELS27B/IMG_0463%28web%29.jpg Photography - Summer Rebuilding Each summer when Van Gujjar families reach their ancestral bugiyal (alpine meadow), they often need to rebuild their family's dehra (hut). These summer homes are built with fallen timber from the surrounding forest and are often destroyed by the harsh winter. After a 2-3 week migration, the first task is to rebuild a home that will last until early autumn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58305970d482e988cbaafdba/1509099130526-XMNM32MVH6BYYKSWDGN7/IMG_0923%28web%29.jpg Photography - Mountains at Dusk Van Gujjar summer dehras are scattered throughout bugiyals of the Himalayas in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Familes are thankful that bugiyals provide consistent fodder for their buffalo, yet harsh conditions cannot be ruled out. 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