Jerry Berndt

Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer. He made work about the Combat Zone, Boston in the late 1960s. and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Life and work Berndt was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA into a working-class family. a homeless shelter on Boston's Long Island in the early 1980s; the living conditions of people in San Salvador (1984), and Haiti at a time of civil unrest (1986–1991); the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in Armenia (1993–1994); and orphans from the Rwandan genocide (2003–2004).

Exhibitions Solo exhibitions Jerry Berndt: Beautiful America, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, 2016

Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York: 1 print (as of 3 January 2022)