Harvey Benge scavenges the urban landscape in his quest for the bizarre and the absurd. He thrives on the everyday moments of ordinary life as he searches for the ambiguities and tensions that lie ben
William Eggleston once asked Harvey Benge ? What are you doing these days? Photographing the urban social landscape, said Benge. Don’t talk bullshit; what are you doing? Eggleston insisted. Making str
The book is part fiction, part autobiography and deal with Benge’s recurring themes of loss, and, as his self portraits attest, impermanence. His democratic view is an acerbic, wry response to the wor
Benge deals with the pain of relationship, the seeming inevitability of separation and the mistrust that is itsconsequence. Women drift, lost and hostile, throughout the pages. They are beautiful but
While looking through his contact sheets, the author noticed that one of his pictures reminded him of a 'Friedlander', another someone else. All photographers do this, and if the photograph in questio
Photo artist Harvey Benge works and lives in Auckland and Paris. Since the early 1990s his photography practice has investigated our view of the world. Laced with irony and humor, Benge’s photographs
Harvey Benge’s new book, The Lament, is his eighth bookwork published by us. It continues his investigation into the nature of things through a celebration of the democracy of images. Questions are as
In 2009 photo artist Harvey Benge had the idea of getting a group of photographers together to shoot a book in a day. On June 21, 2010?the day of the solstice?ten of the world's leading photographers
