P F Bentley
Maunaloa, HI 96770, USA
PF Bentley is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker based on the island of Molokai in Hawaii.
Throughout his career, photojournalist & documentary filmmaker PF Bentley has covered domestic and international politics. Bentley 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. He was the winner of five first place Picture of the Year awards for his political coverage. PF 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.
Bentley was also lead instructor for over 10 years at the very successful Platypus Workshops that trained photojournalists in the world of videojournalism production. He has conducted his own documentary filmaking & cinematic videojournalism training workshops for individuals or groups. Workshops clients have included The International Monetary Fund, Golf Digest and The International Disability Center. Currently he's running a unique One to One photography workshop on Molokai and shooting for clients throughout Hawaii.
His shooting and editing clients have included ABC-TV Nightine, 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, Honolulu Civil Beat, I Aloha Molokai, Kapualei Ranch, Hana Hou, (Hawaiian Airlines Magazine), Hawaii Business Magazine and Hawaii Forest & Trail Nature Adventure Tours.

- Corporate
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interior
- Interview
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Video capture