Ben Garcia is a photographer, videographer, designer, and curator from New Jersey, currently working on the road. He photographs people, travel, landscape, culture, and events: the ordinary moments most of us pass without turning our heads. But the photograph is only the visible half. Beneath each frame lies an intention — what to show and what to withhold. Across photography, film, design, and curation the through-line never breaks: work that feels timeless yet carries a personality, each piece telling its own story.
He arrived at photography sideways. Set on the pre-medical track — psychology and marketing, a psychiatrist in the making — he picked up a camera as a hobby in college, and as he moved deeper into the humanities the two pursuits began to mirror each other: the study of people and the study of the image, each teaching him how to read human expression. Self-taught, and held by the plainest of impulses — to memorialize a feeling and place it in another's hands (if a tree falls in an empty forest, who is there to know it fell).
I truly believe eyes are windows to the soul and as such, my photos are digitally-encased windows to the world as I see it. Being behind the camera is a powerful position to be in as I allow myself to get a third person perspective, capturing facets of life in every frame. I'm motivated by drawing people together around a single shared moment, seeing the energy that decorates a room and connecting the parts of 'God' we have in all of us.
In this era of fleeting trends and transient values, my work is a way of remembering what I have seen, and honoring it, instead of letting it slip past unmarked. When I shoot, the camera can stand like a barrier between me and the person before it, and my whole purpose is to dissolve that barrier. Working with me, you'll be around someone with a clear pursuit of a larger, more inclusive understanding of life and to represent everything with love and care.
Currently traveling in Southeast Asia, Ben is available for commissions, editorial, collaborations, and hire.
photographed.by.ben@gmail.com