Jerry Berndt (photographer)
Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer. He made work about the Combat Zone, Boston in the late 1960s. Berndt has posthumously had solo exhibitions at the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris 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. He was based in Boston, Massachusetts on and off for three decades, beginning in the late 1960s. He was a self-taught photographer  who made work about an area of Boston known as the Combat Zone (1967–1970); 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). Berndt moved to Paris in the late 1990s. He was found dead in his Paris studio on July 10, 2013, probably from a heart attack, aged 69.