Nicole Bengiveno

new york times

Nicole has been a staff photographer

with the New York Times since 1998.

LENS NYTimes blog links: Ft Hood Texas

Sandrow's Shinnecock /Chickens

Stories with links to multimedia content include: This LAND/ The Oyster

Keeping the Faith, a church vigil in Boston. Foreclosure: On the Ground in Georgia. A series entitled The Road Back: U.S. 90 Gulf Coast. A Work in Progress on artist Richard Serra at MoMa. The Delta Queen Rverboat, Elderly in Maine, Polka in its twilight, International Community School, NY Times Year in Pictures 2007, and a Buddhist Temple prepares for the New Year.

Stock images from the archives are available for publication through the New York Times Archive and Redux Pictures Archive

Prints are available.

Photos © Nicole Bengiveno/New York Times

the tent I stayed in with the reporter and a guide while working in the high arctic circle and the clothing they made me wear to stay alive.
   
A carnival atmosphere in NYC's Little Italy
   
Biloxi, Mississippi. The Road Back: A journey via Highway 90 along the Gulf Coast in areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina; nine months later.
     
  
Johnny Five, a homeless man struggling with psychological and drug addiction issues, has returned to living in his "cave" at an abandoned train station in the Bronx.
  
Johnny Five, a homeless man struggling with psychological and drug addiction issues, has returned to living in his "cave" at an abandoned train station in the Bronx.
  
     
  
PetSmart chain stores have PetsHotel services catering to pets whose parents must leave town without them.
   
Isle De Jean Charles, Louisiana, where the bayou land is shrinking and sinking from under the community of the Band of Biloxi Chitimacha Tribe that has lived there for generations.
  
Volunteers from Pennsylvania working for the Mennonite Disaster Service, gather for a game of volleyball after their day of service in the Bayou La Batre community, hard hit by Hurricane Katrina.
     
  
Delery Street residents were allowed to come back to their Ninth Ward homes to survey the damage from the flood of Hurricane Katrina after conditions were deemed safe. Josephine Butler, 83, had a large statue of an angel that she said "guarded" her house that once stood at the entrance to her home. She was looking everywhere to see if she could it under all that remained of her house, which had slid across Delery Street and landed on top of where a neighbor's home once stood.
  
New Orleans Ninth Ward opened to residents after being closed due to dangerous conditions after flooding from Hurricane Katrina. Residents bought their own hazmat suits and came home to start the clean-up.
  
The Abaspour family: Christine and Bejan with their daughters Magan (13) and Haley (10) Haley has been diagnosed at various points with bi-polar disorder. The family is working to help Haley help herself in their daily routines.
     
  
Raquel Gayle took a stroll in Atlanta's historic Grant Park.
  
The Queen Mary II docks in Red Hook Brooklyn. 5am fog surrounds the scene as a patrol boat secures the area.
   
Spy novelist Alan Furst photographed at Sag Main Beach, Long Island
     
  
In spite of temperatures in the mid 30s, Chris Afanador plays handball in Tompkins Square Park. He said that playing keeps him fit for his job; a bouncer at the Pyramid, a club in the East Village.
  
Bangkok,Thailand The Kredtrakarn Protection and Occupational Development Center has been made the main shelter to assist and provide services for trafficked women and children from foreign countries. Illegal Burmese garment workers sign and finger-print a list for back pay for labor done. Non-Government Organization (the Foundation for Women and Foundation for Child Development) workers are helping them as part of the long repatriation process. From a series of photos investigating slave labor.
  
5:30 am, Immokalee farmworkers wait in the parking lot of La Mexicana grocery store where buses will come to pick-up day workers. Most wait for the regular bus and for others it's first come first serve for the seats that will take them to the fields. It's the end of the tomato picking season.
     
  
5:30 am, Immokalee Florida, farmworkers wait for transportation to work. It's the end of the tomato picking season and It's first come first serve for the seats that will take them to the fields. From a series of photos investigating slave labor.
   
Immokalee Florida, farmworkers, the end of the tomato picking season where workers are paid 45 cents a basket.
   
Funeral for firefighter who died fighting a fire on Jan3rd. Funeral procession along Nelson Ave leading towards St Clare's Roman Catholic Church.
     
  
The Delta Queen riverboat makes her way along the Cumberland River through a series of locks as bath-robed passengers peer over the bow to get a better look
   
Alpharetta, Georgia Milton High School football photographed for a project: Class in America.