Bentley, PF

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PF Bentley is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker based on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. Throughout his career, Bentley has covered domestic and international politics, and is known and respected throughout the print and broadcast community for earning unprecedented access to presidential candidates, heads of state, and Capitol Hill. Bentley is a former Time magazine photographer and Special Correspondent who has won five first-place Picture of the Year awards for his political coverage. He has produced programming for ABC-TV Nightline, shot for The Travel Channel and helped create Reason.TV with Drew Carey, where he was Senior Producer and Director of Photography for the web network.

His assignments have included political coverage in Cuba, Haiti, Panama, South Korea and El Salvador.

Bentley was lead instructor for over 10 years at the very successful Platypus Workshops that trained photojournalists in the world of videojournalism production. He is now conducting his own documentary filmmaking and cinematic videojournalism training workshops for individuals or groups. Workshops clients have included The International Monetary Fund, Golf Digest and The International Disability Center. His shooting and editing clients have included ABC-TV Nightline, The Travel Channel, John Wiley & Sons, Globe-Pequot Press, Warner Books, Penguin Group Publishing, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, World Children's Fund, The Reason Foundation, The North Face, Specialized Bikes, Civil Beat, I Aloha Molokai, and Hawaii Forest & Trail Nature Adventure Tours.

Archival Resources
Role Title Holding Repository
creatorOf Bentley, P. F. PF Bentley, photographic archive, 1979-2001. University of Texas Libraries
creatorOf PF Bentley Photographic Archive 2002-179; 2002-199; 2002-220; 2011-357., 1979-2001 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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Relation Name
associatedWith Bradley, Bill, 1943- person
associatedWith Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- person
associatedWith Clinton, Bill, 1946- person
associatedWith Clinton, Hillary Rodham. person
associatedWith Clinton, Hillary Rodham. person
associatedWith Dole, Elizabeth Hanford, 1936- person
associatedWith Dole, Robert J., 1923- person
associatedWith Gingrich, Newt, 1943- person
associatedWith Glenn, John, 1921-2016 person
associatedWith Lott, Trent, 1941- person
Place Name Admin Code Country
Republic of Haiti 00 HT
Republic of El Salvador 00 SV
Moloka‘i HI US
Republic of Cuba 00 CU
Washington, D. C. DC US
Subject
Million Man March (1995 : Washington, D.C.)
Photojournalism
Photojournalism
Occupation
Documentary Filmmaker
Photojournalist
Photojournalists
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Person

Active 1979

Active 2001

Male

Americans

English

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