Benjamin Philip
Global Correspondent — Just Gerald Magazine
He has been to fourteen countries. He has the photographs to prove it. He works for us now.
He Has Been to Fourteen Countries
There is a kind of person who does not merely visit a place — they inhabit it. They know which roadside stand in Jalisco serves the best Pajarete at dawn, which distillery in Tequila will let you into the barrel cellar if you ask the right way, which café has been quietly making the best cappuccino in the region for years while the rest of the world looks elsewhere. And they know, when they arrive in the courtyard of a 130-year-old château in the north of France, to set down their luggage and raise their arm.
Benjamin Philip has been to fourteen countries. He has lived in Mexico long enough to understand it. He has been to France. He has been to a lot of places, and he has the photographs to document what he found in every one of them. His work covers food, beverage, lifestyle, and adventure — the four categories that, when done well, are indistinguishable from each other.
He is our Global Correspondent. He has filed four dispatches. Twelve more countries worth of material is pending. We are, frankly, very pleased he works for us.
"He has lived the life and taken the photos to prove it. He works for us now."
— Gerald Shaffer, Editor, Just Gerald Magazine
BENJAMIN PHILIP — GLOBAL CORRESPONDENT
Correspondent Details
Title
Global Correspondent
Beat
Food, Beverage, Lifestyle, Adventure
Countries
14 (and counting)
Dispatches Filed
4 — France, Mexico (×3)
Known For
Arriving at extraordinary places with luggage and raising his arm
Territory Tracker
France
Château Marconne, Pas-de-Calais
Mexico
Jalisco — Código 1530, Pajarete, Donde Charlie
12 more countries
Dispatches pending. Watch this space.
Filed Dispatches
Château Marconne — Live Your Best Days Here
Pas-de-Calais, France
Built 1894. Goering dined here in WWII. Run by nuns until the 1980s. Now available to rent. Five hectares, a private lake, a wine cellar with original stone arches. Benjamin arrived in the courtyard and raised his arm.
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Código 1530 — A Best Day in Tequila
Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico
Inside the blue building, down into the stone cellar, past the rows of French oak barrels. The finest tequila in the world, in the finest cellar Benjamin has ever stood in.
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Pajarete — A Best Morning in Jalisco
Jalisco, Mexico — at dawn, beside a cow
Raw milk, straight from the cow, mixed with tequila, coffee, and chocolate. Served warm in a clay cup at the side of the road before the sun is fully up.
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Donde Charlie — Best Cappuccino in Jalisco
Jalisco, Mexico
A café with a menu that has been thought about, a Crab Bennie in spicy orange hollandaise, and the best local fresh cappuccino Benjamin has ever photographed anyone drinking. At $68 pesos.
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The Arm
This photograph was taken in the courtyard of Château Marconne, Pas-de-Calais, France. Benjamin Philip is the one with his arm raised. The luggage at his feet is his. The château behind him was built in 1894, requisitioned by the Germans in WWII, run by nuns until the 1980s, and is now available to rent.
A Global Correspondent for Just Gerald Magazine is not someone who reads about places. They are someone who arrives at places, with luggage, and raises their arm when they get there — because they are genuinely, unreservedly pleased to have made it.
Benjamin Philip has been to fourteen countries. In every one of them, he has found something worth photographing and writing about. The arm is the consistent element. The arm is the review.
"He has been to fourteen countries. He has the photos to prove it. He works for us now. Welcome to the masthead, Benjamin."
— Gerald Shaffer
More Dispatches from Everywhere
Benjamin Philip has been to fourteen countries and filed four dispatches. That leaves ten countries of material still pending. More food, more beverage, more lifestyle, more adventure — from wherever he has been and wherever he goes next. Watch this space.
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