Citizen James Photos
With friend, activist, and actor Danny Glover. Backstage at Master Harold and the Boys on broadway
With Stacey Abrams. April 2023.
Jane Fonda and I discussing her Climate PAC
Gathering at Abigail Disney’s Apartment for the Jane Fonda Climate PAC
With Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democracy Alliance, Washington, DC, December 3rd, 2022
With UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology Amandeep Gill, Boston Global Forum, November 27th, 2022
My mom and me on Block Island, RI
My mom, dad, and I with Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 2008.
Mike Bloomberg and me together at synergos institute’s university for a night 2022 Gala
The family and me at the NY Knicks game.
Danny Glover and I at Shared Interest 2011 New York City.
Kate Bolduan, CNN, and me at an event for The News Literacy Project 2019
Myself and the Data-Pop Alliance at the Mit media lab using big data and AI to solve modern urban issues 2019
With Mom and Dad, with Dad’s great friend and former Robben Island prisoner Tokyo Sexwale.
My father with african dignitaries way way back.
LA Womens March 2021
Cheetas waiting; South Africa
Family Gathering, thanks to mom and dad for this nice family portrait.
James at 23 years old working as a counselor at the Covenant House New York
Riding a horse on Block Island beach.
Old friend, brother, and collaborator RDJ
My nephew and I at a Knicks game.
Two page spread in Men’s Journal about my businesses Blue Velvet Boxing Gym and Benjamin James Real Estate.
A few months before the 2020 election and we had a conversation and dinner with a group from TheCommonGoodUS.org including Steve Bannons predicting the fall of the Democratic Party.
In Bwindi, Uganda in the Ugandan rainforest
Me at 23, New York City. Photo by Michael O’brien.
Saru Jayaraman and me at the synergos institute’s university for a night 2022 Gala
Honored to be at Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday party in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Go Mets! At the game with my brothers and nephew.
Benjamin James associates playing chess.
Patricia Duff and Marianne Williamson at the Common Good conversation
Gorillas in trees Bwindi, Uganda
Dr. King and fellow civil rights activists taking a knee in prayer.
Garry Kasparov and I discussing compulsory civics taught in high schools.
Joined the Circus at 16 after running away, This is me wrestling a bear in the circus.
We just escaped being attacked by lions in South Africa 2003
Mets with my brother Paul Ferrari and Emma Ferrari 2022
Preoccupied family at Mom’s birthday 2022
Me photographing the artist Maxwell, Barbera Duerrer, and Peter Beard in my old bathroom.
Great lunch with Anderson Cooper at CNN offices in New York City talking about news literacy.
Governor Hochul and I at a private gathering in March of 2022
LL. Cool J and I at the We Are Family Foundation Gala
Just had dinner with George Brandt and Anne Hathaway. George wrote a play called Grounded in which Anne stared.
Photo of smoke coming from the Twin Towers taken by me from 14th St. 9/11/01
Working with real estate development crew on a great project. www.benjaminjames.com
Mentor and friend Eva Haller and me at the Rubin Museum dinner.
My brother paul and me hiking in the Adirondacks.
My father, Frank Ferrari, with his many colleagues of the African American Institute, and his great friend and former president of Zambia, Kenneth Kuanda.
John and Jodie Ferrari
Lovelight art installation documentary coming out 2022/3
Incredible evening with legendary Jane Fonda, Rocunited.org, and “One Fair Wage.” Terrific conversation about increasing the minimum wage across America.
Greatest dog ever, Indiana.
Myself and my old wheels.
My father’s father was a welder who looks like me pictured here.
Two south African freedom fighters Max Sisulu and Ahmed Kathrada at the 40th anniversary of the Rivonia trials in 1999.
Friend Jimmy Gandolfini and me at my apartment.
My brothers John and Paul Ferrari, and I with Desmond Tutu in the 1980s. Photo taken by Tutu’s great friend Frank Ferrari, my father.
Block Island with the family
Myself and Nadine Gordimer, when in Johannesburg i always go to have tea with Nadine.
South African Cape Buffaloes locking horns.
Peggy Dulany and I at J Bar L Ranch in Montana’s Centennial Valley.
Kim Brizzolara and i at her home in East Hampton at the Hamptoms international film festival launch of the Film Navalny