Ben Thomas (photographer)
Benjamin "Ben" Thomas (born ca. 1981, in Adelaide, Australia)[citation needed])[1] is an Australian photographer[2] and author who is known for his conceptual photography, mostly centred on the subject of highly populated city and urban scenes utilising various techniques such as tilt-shift photography, mirroring and color.
Early life and education
After developing his photographic skills making music videos,[3] Thomas moved to Melbourne and switched to SLR still photography.[4]
Career in photography
Thomas uses a miniaturisation technique called "tilt shift photography".[5][6] He has been exhibited internationally, been featured by Adobe, and won the ACMP Projections Art Photographer of the Year Award in 2008.[7]
Using a helicopter to take high-angle photographs,[8] Thomas created a series of miniatures entitled "Cityshrinker" in 2007, depicting a number of cities around the world. Some of these creations have been featured in his first book, Tiny Tokyo; The Big City Made Mini. (Chronicle Books)[9]
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.[1][10]
Thomas has also exhibited a number of his landscape and still images internationally. He is currently representing Sony as part of the Sony Xperia Academy, showcasing Sony's flagship mobile camera capabilities.[1][11]
Ben was a 2015 artist in residence at the Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany.
References
- ^ a b c Cityshrinker reduces the worlds greatest urban landscapes to miniature toy towns Daily Mail
- ^ "Accession: Ben Thomas". Scandinavian-architects eMagazine
- ^ http://streetfightmag.com/2011/08/17/to-understand-hyperlocal-shrink-the-way-you-think/ "To Understand Hyperlocal, ‘Shrink’ the Way You Think". Street Fight Mag, 17 August 2011 by Rick Robinson.
- ^ "Tilt-shift photographer captures world in miniature". News.com Australia.
- ^ "Tokyo in tilt-shift: the big city made small". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Portfolio: Ben Thomas reveals why Tokyo is perfectly suited to tilt-shift photography". The Independent.
- ^ "ACMP Projections ’08 – and ’09 Call for Entries" DG Design Network.
- ^ "ilt-shift photographer captures world in miniature" Simon Crerar. Herald Sun. 9 February 2013.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Ben Thomas’s Amazing Digital Photo Collages". High Snobiety.
- ^ "Ben Thomas’s Sony Xperia Photography Academy". Sony Xperia Professional Photographer Academy.