photo by Rita Costa-Hollmann

 

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Award-winning California photographer Henry Benson's photos are familiar to many. He took exceptional photographs of the performers at the Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival and also for the Monterey Jazz Festival and other area events. Henry Benson died in March, 2008.

With the assistance of Henry Benson's friend, Dixie Dixon, we are honored to have a selection of his photographs from the 2006 Monterey Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, below.

Henry shared his photos from the 2005 Monterey Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, which you can see in our report here.

photo by Rita Costa-Hollmann

 

Henry Benson's long-time partner, Raisa Betsi, shared the following obituary and photos:

Henry McKinley Benson III, born on October 25, 1946, passed away on March 4th, 2008. He was a renaissance
man with an artistic ability that spanned jewelry, water color painting and photography.

 

Henry Benson was an active member of the Image Makers organization. Henry was well known for his outstanding
images of Jazz and Blues artists. 

For more than 10 years, Henry Benson worked as a volunteer photographer for many events on Monterey peninsula: 
Monterey Blues and Jazz Festivals, Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Car Shows, Santa Cruz Blues Festival, Big Sur Marathon and many more.

 

In 2006-2007 he worked as freelance photographer for 65° Magazine (of Monterey Peninsula).

Henry is survived by his son, Stacy Benson, his daughter-in-law, Cheri Gyuro-Benson, two lovely grandchildren: Hayley and James, and by his long-time partner Raisa Betsi. In Raisa's words, "Henry was a father, loving grandfather, an honest partner, an inspiring colleague, with an unique creative vision."

His friendly discussions, jovial personality and remarkable artistic abilities will be greatly missed by many.

photo by Henry Benson

Henry named this Rock "Martian Rock" (at Point Lobos Park/Reserve. All this landscape looks like an image from space... was taken by Henry Benson in 2005 with an unique Collectors' film camera GLOBUSCOP... This kind of camera was used mostly for movie makers/photographers. They were made in limited number of 700.