Ben Garvin

Stills: Singles

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.
   
On Assignment for New York Times(Page PDF)(Story)A Sunday Times investigative piece on the industrial beef industry and how neither the system meant to make meat safe, nor the meat itself, is what consumers have been led to believe.
   
Larry Werkmeister of Coon Rapids emerges a winner from his beat up car during the demolition derby at the Anoka County Fair.
     
  
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.
   
26-year-old Sgt. John Kriesel, left, hugs his former roommate in Iraq, SSgt. Tim Nelson, 27, after Nelson and 270 other soldiers returned from the war zone to Volk Field in Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 18, 2007. Both Nelson and Kriesel were riding in the same vehicle when a explosive ripped through, killing two of their close friends. "It's an amazing feeling to hug him and see him alert," said Nelson, who was medivaced with Kriesel after the blast.
   
Photo from a Spring Fashion shoot at the Como Park Conservatory in St. Paul. This cardigan, leather jacket and skirt are all from Macy’s.
     
  
Fisherman Sujith Krisantha, 32, heads out to sea in the early morning from Kalamtiya on Sri Lanka's southern coast. He just finished repairing his boat and net and is starting to fish again. On this day he earned 300 rupees (about three dollars) and caught 12 varieties of fish. That's about a fourth as good as he did before the tsunami. His net has many holes in it.
   
Friends and neighbors gather in what's left of a backyard along the Garvin Brook in Minnesota City, Minn., on Monday, August 20, 2007. The flooded stream tore off chunks of backyards and entire garages along it's path.
   
Two fisherman row across the Lake Volta in Ghana, the largest man-made lake in the world.