Ben Thomas (photographer)

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Early life

Thomas was born in 1981 in Adelaide, Australia. After developing his photographic skills making music videos, [1] Thomas moved to Melbourne and switched to SLR still photography. [2]

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Career in photography

Thomas uses a number of photographic and post processing techniques, mostly concentrating on the use of colour, perspective and a miniaturisation technique called "tilt shift photography". [3] [4] He has been exhibited internationally, been featured by Apple, [5] Adobe, and won the 2018 Hasselblad Masters along with the ACMP Projections Art Photographer of the Year Award in 2008. [6]

Thomas was the winner of the 2015 125Live Vision, Innovative Photographer of the year award. [7] And also the 2015 Desktop Create Awards Photography category winner [8]

Using a helicopter to take high-angle photographs, [9] Thomas created a series of miniatures entitled "Cityshrinker" in 2007, depicting a number of cities around the world. This work was finalised in his book, Tiny Tokyo; The Big City Made Mini. (Chronicle Books) [10] which brought about the end of Cityshrinker and a hiatus from photography while developing new work. [11]

Thomas has also created a collection of photographs which he has called "Accession", in which large urban scenes are deconstructed and reconstructed in a kaleidoscopic style. [12] Thomas has also exhibited a number of his landscape and still images internationally. He had represented Sony as part of the Sony Xperia Academy, showcasing Sony's flagship mobile camera capabilities. [13]

Thomas was a 2015 artist in residence at the Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany cited as the inspiration and genesis of the "Chroma" series. [14]

Thomas was commissioned by The New Yorker Magazine for an artwork for the 7 March 2016 edition's short story, "Buttony" and again in March 2017 for the photoessay 'Dubai, the worlds Vegas'. [15] Thomas' "Chroma" series was also featured by Apple for their 2018 iPad Pro announcement.

Ben is a recipient of the 2018 Hasselblad Masters award and is now an ambassador for the brand. [16]

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  2. ↑ "Tilt-shift photographer captures world in miniature". News.com Australia.
  3. ↑ "Tokyo in tilt-shift: the big city made small". The Telegraph.
  4. ↑ "Portfolio: Ben Thomas reveals why Tokyo is perfectly suited to tilt-shift photography". The Independent.
  5. ↑ Apple (30 October 2018), Introducing the new iPad Pro – Apple , retrieved 2 November 2018
  6. ↑ "ACMP Projections ’08 – and ’09 Call for Entries" Archived 6 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine DG Design Network.
  7. ↑ "125 Live awards" 2015 Awards.
  8. ↑ "Desktop Create Awards" 2015 Photography Category.
  9. ↑ "ilt-shift photographer captures world in miniature" Simon Crerar. Herald Sun. 9 February 2013.
  10. ↑ "Ben Thomas Depicts Tokyo as a Tiny Version of Itself Using Tilt-Shift Photography Tiny Tokyo: The Big City Made Mini by Ben Thomas". Inhabit.
  11. ↑ "Ben Thomas – Jeffery Saddoris". Jeffery Saddoris. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  12. ↑ "Ben Thomas’s Amazing Digital Photo Collages". High Snobiety
  13. ↑ "Ben Thomas’s Sony Xperia Photography Academy". Sony Xperia Professional Photographer Academy.
  14. ↑ "Process Driven Podcast with Ben Thomas" Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine with Jeffery Saddoris.
  15. ↑ "The New Yorker Magazine" for the 7 March 2016 edition for the weekly short story 'Buttony" artwork.
  16. ↑ "Ben Thomas". hasselblad.com. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
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