Ben Cook is fast becoming known for an innate ability to execute beautifully structured high production-value images, whilst imbuing in them a feeling of rough-edged intimacy. Ben uses photography as a passport to unfamiliar worlds. Ranging from the beautiful and renowned to society’s oft-invisible bottom-feeders, his eye is drawn to society’s renegades, revolutionaries, and rejects.
Whether doing fashion, celebrity, or personal projects, his style is gonzo, unpretentious, urban reportage, inspired by the elegant freedom of the 1960s, subversive 20th century London, and Mark Spitz. Physical and emotional, sexy and scruffy, Ben’s eye captures a scraped back glamour that skirts the boundaries between elegantly dishevelled, and possibly needs a shower.
Inspired by his mentor, photographer Hanspeter Schnieder, Ben left a successful career as a fashion editor at Ministry of Sound to pursue his dream of becoming a photographer, so he could have free reign to stare at the world through the eye of his camera. (Ponce.) After spending two years honing his now legendary Photoshop skills at Foret Bleu in Paris, Ben then spent another two years travelling around the world, assisting Hanspeter. He now divides his time between the Bedhead Studio in London, and a career as a freelance photographer.
written by Dominique Rowe