Ben Osborne

Ben Osborne has been a freelance photographer for 25 years. He specialises in wildlife and landscape photography but also shoots a wide variety of other outdoor subjects, ranging from oil spills to hill-walking. He has worked on all seven continents but is best known for his images of Antarctica in the book of the BBC series “Life in the Freezer”. His work has been published in numerous magazines including National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Geo, Radio Times and Hello! In 2007 he was overall winner of the “Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year” competition and won the “Creative Visions of Nature” category. His work was recognised by the Royal Photographic Society in 2008 through the award of an Honorary Fellowship.

He works regularly with BBC film crews, shooting publicity and editorial stills for major wildlife series including “Blue Planet” and, most recently,  “Planet Earth”. These international commissions are interspersed with work in the UK for a variety of tourist, government and local organisations.

Ben is also involved with a number of arts projects. His collaboration with the Anglo-Welsh Poetry Society and guitarist Keith Offord created “Common Source”, a spectacular and thought-provoking audio-visual journey down the River Severn and up the River Wye. More recently he worked on visual backdrops to “Darwin’s Dream”, an opera about evolution, funded by the Wellcome Trust and performed in the Albert Hall. He is currently working on "Jurassic Journey", a multi-media project about the “Jurassic Coast” World Heritage Site.

Ben divides his time between travelling the world creating new images, touring with audio-visual presentations and working on collaborative arts projects around the UK.