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Benjamin "Ben" Thomas (born ca. 1981, in Adelaide, Australia)) is an Australian photographer 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 advanced color manipulation, mirroring and tilt-shift photography.
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Early life and education
After developing his photographic skills making music videos, Thomas moved to Melbourne and switched to SLR still photography.
Career in photography
Thomas uses a number of photographic and post processing techniques, mostly concentrating on the use of color, perpective and a miniaturisation technique called "tilt shift photography". He has been exhibited internationally, been featured by Adobe, and won the ACMP Projections Art Photographer of the Year Award in 2008.
Thomas was the winner of the 2015 125Live Vision, Innovative Photographer of the year award. And also the 2015 Desktop Create Awards Photography category winner
Using a helicopter to take high-angle photographs, 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)
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. 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.
Thomas was a 2015 artist in residence at the Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany cited as the inspiration and genesis of the "Chroma" series.
Thomas was commissioned by The New Yorker Magazine for an artwork for the March 7, 2016 edition's short story, "Buttony" and again in March 2017 for the photoessay 'Dubai, the worlds Vegas'.