In a video from Cooperative of Photography, the incredibly creative photographer Benjamin Von Wong offers a number of tips and tricks to help photographers expand their skills and photos, using his own work as an example. The great news is that all of these photos all follow the same basic…
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Sea of 168,000 Used Plastic Straws Is Parted in Unique Art Installation With a Strong Environmental Message
Photographer and artist Benjamin Von Wong (previously) worked with Zero Waste Saigon and Starbucks Vietnam to gather 168,000 used plastic straw for his incredible installation “Parting of the Plastic Sea”, the world’s largest straw sculpture. This 10 foot installation represents an important action that people around the world can easily…
Photographer Benjamin Von Wong Transforms Office Workers Into Athletes in Clever Portraits
Photographer Benjamin Von Wong (previously) transformed office workers at SmugMug into super intense action sports athletes with the help of some clever photo wizardry last fall. To create the portraits, Von Wong used a $20 DIY rain rig, and $20,000 of professional lighting to depict SmugMug employees in various states…
Benjamin Von Wong Creates a Fairy Tale Fashion Shoot at the Admont Abbey Library in Austria
Photographer Benjamin Von Wong (previously) recently shot this fairy tale fashion photo series at the remarkably ornate 18th century library in Admont Abbey in Austria. Built in 1776, the library contains some 70,000 books and is illuminated with natural light through 48 windows. Von Wong describes the library as a…
Ethereal Underwater Photos Taken at a Shipwreck Off the Coast of Bali by Benjamin Von Wong
Photographer Benjamin Von Wong recently shot these ethereal underwater fashion photos in a complex shoot at a shipwreck off the coast of Bali. Von Wong describes the many complications of such a shoot on his blog, which included finding underwater models — they are all free-divers — and convincing a…
Photographer Turns Office Workers Into Superheroes and Poses Them on Edge of 1,000-Foot-Tall Building
Photographer Benjamin Von Wong (previously) transformed office workers at SmugMug into popular comic book superheroes and took photos of them posing on the edge of a 1,000-foot-tall building in San Francisco. Von Wong did not use any special effects or stuntmen for his amazing photo shoot, just fearless everyday moms,…
A Tale of Benjen Stark, Short Fan Film Based on Game of Thrones
Director and photographer Benjamin Von Wong teamed up with Five Knights Productions to create A Tale of Benjen Stark, a fantastic seven-minute fan film based on HBO’s popular TV series Game of Thrones. It “tells the beginning of the adventure of Benjen Stark, following his return to the wall shortly…
Man on Fire Photoshoot by Benjamin Von Wong
Montreal-based photographer Benjamin Von Wong wanted to capture the image of a man on fire, so he did the only reasonable thing: He set a man on fire. Filmmaker Erwan Cloarec was on hand to document the photo shoot, via PetaPixel
