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Director of Photography  |  Audio Visual Artist

Underground

Fine Art & Abstract Photography 


Underground is a fine art photography series exploring ideas of landscape, abstraction and traces, of perception and perspective, where scale is uncertain and fixed narratives are intentionally avoided. Rather than providing answers, the photographs embrace ambiguity. 


Their open, spacious compositions encourage viewers to question what they are seeing and how they relate to it. Is it a map? A fragment of earth? A constructed surface? A memory of a place? 


Through considered framing and post production, the images feel both intimate and expansive. Underground demonstrates how fine art photography can transform space into experience, how an image can become a site of inquiry, dialogue, and contemplation.

Underground  A dramatic, moody fine art photographic series depicting an underground setting,  related to maps, territory, landscapes and urban exploration.

Humans

Fine Art & Environmental Photography 


Humans is a fine art and environmental photography series exploring the relationship between solitary figures and vast landscapes. As a fine art photographer, I focus on the tension between human scale and environmental immensity, capturing moments of introspection, vulnerability, and quiet presence.


Through considered composition and the use of negative space, each photograph aims to balance emotional resonance with visual impact, creating open-ended narratives that invite reflection. The series explores themes of isolation, scale, and the dialogue between people and their surroundings, transforming landscapes into spaces of contemplation.


Created for galleries, exhibitions, and collectors, Humans shows how fine art photography can combine conceptual depth with striking, immersive imagery.

The series transforms environmental and abstract landscapes into spaces for reflection, offering work that is visually compelling and emotionally resonant.

Scapes  A sweeping, cinematic landscape photography series from the 'Scapes' series, showcasing natural beauty.

Director of Photography

Interview & Portrait Cinematography


I’m a Director of Photography and Lighting Camera Operator, working across narrative films, music videos, commercials, corporate projects, and experimental work. I’m fascinated by how light, shadow, composition, and camera movement can shape a scene, how different lenses, focal lengths and diffusion can create different, subtle emotions. For me, cinematography is always in service of the story, concept or message. 


I approach each project by combining conceptual understanding, careful technical control with a cinematic sensibility, using light, composition, and camera movement to shape both mood and story.  Whether it’s an intimate interview or a more experimental shoot, I consider how every element, from the way light falls on a subject to the movement of the camera through space, can enhance emotion and presence. 


My work reflects experience across narrative films, music videos, commercials, corporate projects, and experimental media, and I aim to create visuals that are thoughtful, dynamic, and emotionally resonant. I enjoy collaborating closely with filmmakers, agencies, and production teams to deliver cinematography that serves the story while remaining visually compelling, technically precise, and tailored to the specific needs of each project.

Interviews  A candid, documentary-style series of photographs from the 'Interviews' project, featuring  subjects in conversation.

Plates

Conceptual & Fine Art Photography 


Plates is a conceptual and experimental fine art photography series that sits somewhere between photography and painting. It grew from a curiosity about surface, about what happens when an image is not just seen, but built, layered, touched, and altered. Through texture, gesture, and mark-making, the work aims to explore how perception shifts when photography moves beyond pure representation and begins to feel physical and tactile.


The work blends abstraction with painterly techniques, allowing process to become visible. Scratches, layers, smears, fragments, and interventions are not hidden; they are part of the visual language. Each piece evolves slowly, shaped as much by experimentation as intention. In this space between control and chance, the images become conceptually driven objects, less about depicting something and more about questioning how meaning is formed.


Rooted in contemporary art practice, Plates intentionally blurs the boundaries between mediums. It reflects an ongoing investigation into experimental photography as a fine art discipline, work designed to exist within galleries, exhibitions, publications, and installation contexts. At its core, the series is about pushing photographic language forward while remaining thoughtful, immersive, and deeply connected to materiality and process.

Plates  A minimalist, conceptual fine art photographic series focusing on the theme of 'Plates' in a creative context.

Forgotten

Architectural & Conceptual Photography


Forgotten is a conceptual and architectural photography series exploring the psychological and historical dimensions of space, where I focus on how buildings can carry traces of human presence and memory.  This series is rooted in a fine art approach to photography, where architecture becomes more than subject matter, the work reveals subtle signs of decay that uncover hidden narratives within abandoned or forgotten spaces. I’m less interested in documenting buildings as physical structures and more drawn to their emotional weight.


Through conceptual and fine art photography, architecture is reimagined as a contemplative storyteller, carrying traces of time, memory, and human experience.


Working within the language of contemporary art, the series focuses on form, minimalism, atmosphere, and subtle tonal relationships. Each image is carefully composed to exist not just as a photograph, but as a visual meditation, something that invites slow looking and thoughtful engagement within a gallery setting. The work is created with exhibitions, art galleries, and curatorial contexts in mind, offering fine art photography that is both intellectually grounded and emotionally resonant.


At its core, the project reflects an ongoing commitment to concept-driven photographic practice, conceptual, refined, and deeply connected to the discourse of art and contemporary photography.

Forgotten, A haunting, atmospheric photographic series conveying themes of abandonment, memory, dereliction.

Scapes

Fine Art & Landscape Photography


Scapes is a fine art and landscape photography series rooted in a quiet fascination with both natural and urban environments. I’m drawn to the atmosphere a landscape holds, the shifting light, the subtle textures, the feeling in the air and the connotations the image may hold. Each photograph is less about recording a scene and more about exploring its emotional and sublime qualities through contemplative visual storytelling.


Working with careful composition, natural light, and post production, I approach landscape photography with a fine art mindset. The images sit somewhere between documentary realism and artistic interpretation, allowing familiar environments to feel reflective, emotional and open to new meaning. I want viewers to slow down, to notice what they might usually pass by, and to experience these landscapes with fresh eyes.


As a body of work, Scapes reflects my ongoing exploration of conceptual photography within the context of contemporary art and gallery practice. The series is thoughtfully crafted for exhibitions, art publications, and creative collaborations, offering visually striking, emotionally resonant photography that feels at home in galleries and curated spaces.

Scapes  A sweeping, cinematic landscape photography series from the 'Scapes' series, showcasing natural beauty.

Details

Fine Art & Conceptual Photography


Details is a conceptual and fine art photography series exploring the overlooked elements of everyday life, where I focus on signs, symbols, and remnants of human activity that carry hidden narrative potential. 


This series grew out of a simple curiosity about the everyday. Through observational and conceptual photography, careful composition, abstraction and post production, the aim of the work is to elevate peripheral details into visually compelling and conceptually rich imagery that invites viewer interpretation, reflection, and emotional engagement. 


By looking for meaning in small, often overlooked moments, fragments that might seem ordinary at first, but reveal something deeper when given time and attention, the work aims to draw attention to the ideas of value, importance and meaning. The result is a body of work that feels personal and reflective, yet open enough for others to find their own interpretations.


It’s a project shaped by patience, thought, and a genuine interest in how images can hold both quiet emotion and layered ideas. The photographs are intended to live comfortably in galleries, publications, and creative spaces, not as statements, but as conversations.

a photographic series exploring small details, often overlooked signs and symbols of human activity

©2026 Benjamin D Cooper 

Director of Photography | Audio Visual Artist