ronnie bennett photographer

  Short Biography    

I have been a professional portrait photographer for the past eight years.  During this time I have won over 40 awards, including two Kodak European Gold Awards for Portraiture, and both the Fujifilm Portrait Photographer of the Year and the Kodak Children’s Portrait Photographer of the Year for the United Kingdom.  I am a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a member of The Association of Photographers in London.  I have had work exhibited with The London Salon of Photography, the Arena group of photographers, and the Association of Photographers, and have photographs included in six internationally distributed books on portraiture.  My pictures and feature articles on my work have appeared in numerous magazines including The Photographer, Amateur Photographer, Professional Photographer, Practical Photography, Photography Monthly, Photo Art International, and The British Journal of Photography.

Initially I worked exclusively in black and white because of the total image control that is possible through monochrome printing.  I still specialise in black and white photography primarily because I feel it concentrates the focus of my images on the unique character of my subjects.  However, since I have been using digital capture and printing techniques, which allow me to alter the quality of my colour to match the quality of my images, I am working in colour as well.