…touch>photography

The blog is a reflection of my work - in all it's generes that I cover; mainly weddings, but also portraits, fashion, PR and some events, but you will also find some personal work too, with the odd few random thoughts, insights or anything else that may tickle my fancy or might be of interest to you?

If you haven't been to the main website & read my philosophy in full, don't worry here's the short version and hence the meaning behind the name.... ....touch>photography

"whatever you do in life - do it with love & kindness"

So whether you're getting married soon, a past client and friend, a fellow photographer or simply just browsing that big wonderful web - then I hope you enjoy!

Ben x

P.s ....please feel free to leave comments too - or maybe you just want to say hello!

…Ben

...or Benny or even Bennito! - (what a Brasilian friend calls me!)

I don't want to speak in the third person - as that just sounds naff!

So this is me!

In the beginning my school was one of the first to offer GCSE photography - with an old portacabin converted into a darkroom! ....I learnt the art of photography the old skool way... (quite literally!) I excelled in all my creative arty subjects of Drama, Art, Photography etc and noticed a pattern - this led me onto Art College - first doing an Art foundation course - which gives you a taste of all the disciplines to finally ending up doing a fine-art photography degree.

At the time digital was only in it's infancy... and I was in love with my darkroom! (I actually thought it would never catch on - looking at the quality back then) it was the time of 1 mega pixel camera! - oh how times have changed.

While I loved coming up with conceptual art photography pieces - I knew that a struggling artist was never going to cut it in the real world! ....Plus I also loved just producing beautiful striking images for the sake of well just creating something beautiful to look at - hardly a fine art luminary!

Skip forward a good few years & numerous jobs later... I started a photography/promotions business with a 2 best friends. We worked for some top PR clients & magazines like Okay, visiting numerous events shooting celebrities - and they still do! - but I felt I needed to take a different direction and do my own thing - they always say never mix business with pleasure! ....and as such I still love them both dearly today!

This is when I started touch photography - and this gave me the perfect excuse to go on my search for creating beautiful imagery!

I love my job... and love shooting weddings particularly, even though I still get commissioned for P.R and other stuff.

I love challenging myself to keep creating images that make my couples go – WOW!…. and at the end of the day, for me that’s all the recognition I ever need – it’s actually my favourite part of the process meeting up afterwards for a viewing presentation and if I can make you cry – then I know I’ve done a really good job too!

…maybe I just love meeting new people in general – but whatever it is I hope to be doing this for many more years to come!

Thanks for reading about me!

xx