MEET THE PHOTOGRAPHER
BEN WELSH
Ben Welsh was given his first camera by his photographer father when he was twelve. He used it, along with electronic triggers, to photograph insects in flight. It was the beginning of a lifelong determination to conceptualise his environment. Adept at high-energy sports, he was a Spanish windsurfing champion. His photography equally encompasses the natural world and the fascinating variety of the human condition. The result has been multiple assignments for major national and international brands which have funded his exploration into a profusion of photographic techniques which he applies to his artwork. He refuses to be categorised into any particular artistic category. He has made environmental portraits
of shopkeepers in Tarifa, southern Spain, where he resides, recreated the Greek myth of Narcissus, paid homage to Paul Gauguin in an interpretation of that artist's work and braved storms to capture magnificent seascapes. In short, the world and everything in it is his subject. His work has been recognised by the prestigious international online gallery One Eyeland, where he is among their top ten photographers and has been awarded three gold medals of excellence by the world's largest photographic art competition, the Austrian Circuit of Trierenberg and recently a gold award at the New York Photography Awards for the photograph "Beach Life".