Ben Needham is a San Francisco-based Photographer of Fine Art. He recently returned to the Bay Area after working in NYC for the Chelsea-based Christopher Burke Studio. Ben has experience photographing paintings, sculptures, and installations in galleries, museums, artist studios, and site-specific public spaces.
While working as a photographer in New York, he worked on art documentation projects that included such artists as Matisse, Natalie Frank, Walton Ford, Yinka Shonibare, Olafur Eliasson, Louise Fishman, and Louise Bourgeois. Ben has had the privilege of working for such clients as Cheim & Read Gallery, Peres Projects, White Cube, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Paul Kasmin Gallery, James Cohan Gallery, Betty Cuningham Gallery, Metro Pictures, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, The Al Held Foundation, Matisse Foundation, and the Louise Bourgeois Studio.
His recent projects include the documentation of Ariel Erestingcol's "CEWEBRITIES: The Virtual Red Carpet" at the Sabina Lee Gallery in Los Angeles, Suzanne Song's paintings in "Two Degrees of Separation" at Gallery Satori in New York, and Genevieve Quick's exhibition "Scopes and Scapes" at Southern Exposure in San Francisco.
Ben graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001 with an MFA in Painting. He attended Skidmore College for Studio Art - concentrating in Photography and Painting - as well as Parsons Paris School of Art + Design.
• DoSomething.org/Brick Awards
• First Republic Bank
• Football for Good
• Gift Robe
• Jane Kim for Supervisor 2010
• Kearny Street Workshop
• Obama for America
• Rawson Projects
• Vietnamese Community Center of San Francisco
• Vote for Hope
