Benjamin Petit

Benjamin Petit was born in Paris, France in 1984. He received a master's degree in photography at the ENS Louis Lumière in 2010 in Paris and graduated from the photojournalism and documentary photography program at the International Center of Photography in 2011 in New York City.
In 2008, his portraits of photographers as Reza and Miguel Rio-Branco were part of a collective exhibition in the MEP in Paris and at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2009.
In 2010 he exhibited his work New York and its clichés at the Cub 7 gallery in Paris and at the Pnom Penh Photo festival in Cambodia. He received the same year a Fulbright fellowship to pursue his photographic career in New York where he is currently based.
He got the honorable jury prize at the French magazine Paris Match photoreportage contest 2011 for his reportage Wesley Thompson, can collector. He was also part of the Eddie Adams Workshop XXIV where he won the New York Times assignment award for which he is collaborating with on a regular basis. He's also part of the Bronx Documentary Center staff.
During the summer 2012 his series Times Square Express is exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles.