Mark Bennington

Mark Bennington is an internationally known photographer and best known as an actor for his work on Star Trek Voyager NYPD Blue Charmed and more recently in the films Parmanu The Story of Pokhran Detective Byomkesh Bakshy and upcoming Kesari As an actor Mark trained with Mike Nichols Paul Sills George Morrison at the New Actors Workshop in Manhattan After graduating he worked for 2 years with Diane Paulus Randy Weiners experimental theater ensemble Project 400 and later landed his first big theater gig in the Royal National Theatres production of An Enemy of the People directed by Trevor Nunn starring Sir Ian McKellen He worked as an actor in regional theater for years before picking up the camera As a photographer Marks work has been published in The Atlantic The Huffington Post UpWorthy CNN Photo District News GQ India Verve Magazine Mans World Magazine Asian Photography Worth Magazine The Los Angeles Times The LA Weekly The Wall Street Journal Platform Magazine Forbes Magazine The Times of India The Virginia Quarterly Review The Boston Globe Lucky Magazine Self Magazine BuzzFeed and many more Mark authored of the acclaimed photography book Living the Dream The Life of the Bollywood Actor HarperCollins 2017 and is an adjunct professor of photography at The SI Newhouse School of Media and Communication at Syracuse University His work has been exhibited in Rome Tokyo New York City San Fransisco Berlin and London As a drummer Mark played over 400 shows and recorded 3 albums with the legendary LA rootsrock band 50cent Haircut Knitting Factory Records Based in Mumbai he married cultural anthropologist Taapsi Ramchandani on December 21 2013