BENJAMIN DIMMITT

 Benjamin Dimmitt photographs wetlands, forests and the landscape using film and a medium format camera. He uses his camera to investigate interdependence, competition, survival and mortality in the natural environment.

The University of Georgia Press will publish a book of Benjamin’s climate change project, An Unflinching Look, in fall 2023. In addition to his photography and writing, the publication will include contributions from distinguished photographer, Emmet Gowin; naturalist and activist, Susan Cerulean; research scientist and native Floridian, Dr. Matthew McCarthy; photography scholar and curator, Dr. Alison Nordström; and Alexa Dilworth, a native Floridian and publishing director at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies.

 Benjamin was born and raised on the Gulf Coast of Florida. He graduated from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL and also studied at the International Center of Photography in NYC, NY, Santa Fe Photographic Workshop in Santa Fe, NM, Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Centre in Florence, Italy and City and Guild Arts School in London, England.

 He moved to New York City after college and held an adjunct professor position at the International Center of Photography from 2001-2013. He now lives and works near Asheville, NC. Recently, he has taught at Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, FL, Penland School of Craft in Penland, NC, Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC, Bascom Art Center in Highlands, NC and Dunedin Fine Art Center in Dunedin, FL.

 Benjamin’s photographs have been exhibited at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, School of International Center of Photography, NYC, NY, American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC, NY, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach FL, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa FL, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, Photo+Sphere Festival, Asheville, NC, Naiman Int’l Photography Festival, Mongolia, Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, NY and Midtown Y Photography Gallery, NYC, NY.

 His work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, the Center for Photographic Art, the Asheville Art Museum, Eckerd College and numerous private collections. Ain’t Bad, Architectural Digest, Black & White, Colossal, Don't Take Pictures, Fraction, Lenscratch, Journal of Florida Studies, Orion, Oxford American, Photo District News, The New Yorker Photo Booth, What Will You Remember and many other publications have featured Benjamin’s photographs.

 He was a finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top 200 in 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and in New Orleans Photo Alliance’s Clarence John Laughlin Award in 2014 and 2015.

His An Unflinching Look and Primitive Florida projects are available as traveling exhibitions.

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Links to Articles, Posts, Podcasts and Reviews:

LENSCRATCH, An Unflinching Look, 11/7/23

SALVATION SOUTH, The Presence of Absence, 11/4/23

COLOSSAL, An Unflinching Look, 7/10/23

CONSERVATION CONNECTION Podcast, 6/19/23

LENSCRATCH, Art + Science Award. 11/12/21

COLOSSAL, An Unflinching Look, 10/8/19

LENSCRATCH, This Is Climate Change, 9/24/19

ALL ABOUT PHOTO, 1/19

OXFORD AMERICAN, EYES ON THE SOUTH, Coastal Roots, 9/5/18

LENSCRATCH, Paradise.Lost., 10/13/17

DON'T TAKE PICTURES, Click! Photography Festival, 10/17

South x Southeast Photomagazine, Chassahowitzka Saltwater Intrusion, 7-8/17

JOURNAL OF FLORIDA STUDIES, An Unflinching Look, Volume 1, Issue 6, 2017

CREATIVE LOAFING, Critic's Picks, 12/16

OXFORD AMERICAN, EYES ON THE SOUTH, National Treasure, 9/20/16

CREATIVE LOAFING, Salty In All The Wrong Places, 5/25/16

TAMPA BAY TIMES, Requiem For A Landscape, 5/4/16

AINT-BAD, Primitive Florida, 11/18/15

LENSCRATCH, Primitive Florida, 8/6/15

South x Southeast Photomagazine, Primitive Florida, 1-2/13

PHOTO DISTRICT NEWS - PHOTO OF THE DAY, Giving Trees, 12/3/10

THE NEW YORKER - PHOTO BOOTH, Frames from Fiction: It Came from the Swamp, 7/21/10