Ben Garvin

Stills: Singles

On Assignment for New York Times(Page PDF)(Story)This Sunday New York Times investigative piece, written by Michael Moss, won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. The portrait is of Stephanie Smith, a young woman who was paralyzed after eating meat tainted with E Coli virus.
  
On assignment for New York Times(Page PDF)(Story)Kindergartners at Twin Cities International Elementary School, a charter school in downtown Minneapolis. For some immigrant families, charter schools have become havens where their children are shielded from the American youth culture that pervades large district schools.
  
An aerial view of the flooding Red River near Fargo, North Dakota.
     
  
Click here for audio slideshow."I'm ready to go in and smash stuff up," said 18-year-old Jon Kanzenbach of Faribeault, Minn., as he waited to enter the arena. "I'm just out to wreck the car."
  
 (This was part of an audio slideshow Garvin produced for the New York Times.)Haddie Frauenheim-Danke embraces her sister Tiggie who was adopted from Ethiopia.
  
An aerial view the morning after the I-35W bridge collapse in Miinneapolis.
     
  
The Vikings' #55 Jason Glenn (LB) takes to the air in celebration of his team's 19-16 win over the Washington Redskings on September 11, 2006 at FedExField in Landover, Md. At bottom left is ESPN Magazine photographer Rob Tringali.
  
Home in Pittsfield, N.H., waits for mourners to arrive for calling hours. "Once I had a real hard time," she said. "The girl was killed in a car accident. Just her skin, so young, so innocent, and it just caught me. I had to go to bed and start up the next day. Those are the times when you think your job is hard."
  
A secret service agent stands guard as President Bush arrives at the airport in Minneapolis. Waiting inside the limo is Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.
     
  
Larry Werkmeister of Coon Rapids emerges a winner from his beat up car during the demolition derby at the Anoka County Fair.
  
Two fisherman row across the Lake Volta in Ghana, the largest man-made lake in the world.