Michael Benson works at the intersection of art and science. Artist, screenwriter, director, book designer, exhibition organizer, and director of large-scale landscape photography shows internationally are all of him, a graduate of the University of New York at Albany with a degree in photography (1984). Michael was born on March 31, 1962 in Munich. He began working as a news assistant at The New York Times, but soon became a freelance journalist. In 1986, he began publishing a series of articles
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Michael Benson works at the intersection of art and science. Artist, screenwriter, director, book designer, exhibition organizer, and director of large-scale landscape photography shows internationally are all of him, a graduate of the University of New York at Albany with a degree in photography (1984).
Michael was born on March 31, 1962 in Munich. He began working as a news assistant at The New York Times, but soon became a freelance journalist. In 1986, he began publishing a series of articles in Rolling Stone about Soviet underground rock music with rare photos at the time, in addition, at the same time he made an hour-long documentary for MTV about Soviet rock called Tell Tchaikovsky the News. During the same period, he sometimes worked for the Moscow bureau of Reuters as a photo reporter. Later he wrote articles on a variety of topics for leading American publications.
In 1989, Benson enrolled at New York’s Graduate Film School and made several documentaries, including about Slovenia and the crumbling Yugoslavia. He lived in Slovenia for 16 years from the early 1990s, making the Vancouver-winning documentary Prediction of Fire, before returning to New York in 2007, where he continued to work in film. In particular, Benson collaborated with Terrence Malik in the creation of a video sequence for him.
Tree of Life" (The director used some of Benson’s book and exhibition projects in his film.) This work was greatly helped by images from long-distance space flights, which Michael began to collect from the 1990s. His book Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes includes about three hundred processed, high-quality photographs of the planets and moons of the solar system.
These photographs of planetary landscapes Benson since the late 1990s began to show in large-scale exhibitions.