Kay Chernush

On assignment: Port of Baltimore

Assignments always bring with them a special sense of excitement and tension. It's a performance, and you have to deliver. The assignments I do take me all over the world and have given me access to places and people that I would otherwise never have come in contact with.  

I have photographed more than 50 feature stories for the Smithsonian Magazine and explored the worlds of bio-medical research, health care, cement, steel, dynamite, advanced weapons systems, airlines, ports, shipbuilding, banking, hotels, horse racing, international development and much more for Fortune 500 corporations, foundations, hospitals and non-governmental organizations.  

This gallery features, on a changing basis, some of my favorite assignments from the past 25 years.  

  • Ship-aerial-copy
  • Red-Sea
  • Ship_s-bow-copy
  • Tug1-copy
  • Seagirt-copy
  • Check-in-copy
  • Paper-roll
  • Orange-ro-ro-copy
  • Car-lot-copy
  • Gate-keeper-copy
  • Grain-elevator-copy
  • Containers1-copy
  • Paper-warehouse-copy
  • Container-blur
  • Ship-at-dusk-copy
  • intro
  • Chance encounters
  • A sense of place
  • In transit
  • Harvest rituals
    • Olives
    • Cranberries
    • Saffron
    • Bordeaux
    • Wild rice
  • Slow Food: Markets
  • Self Examination
  • Industrial Arts
  • 10 Ways of Seeing the Same Thing
  • Lensless
  • Eddies & Currents
    • Go with the flow
    • WaterWorks
    • Slicks
  • On assignment
    • Shipbreakers (Pakistan)
    • Port of Baltimore
  • Private Galleries
  • Bio
  • Contact
  • Links
  • Exhibitions, Events & Reviews
    • The Us & The They
    • Exhibition in the Netherlands
    • Review of Self Examination
  • Human Trafficking

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