Following a course in creative photography at the University of New Mexico, Ben Gibson, studied documentary photography for two years under Magnum photographer David Hurn at Newport College of Art & Design. Within a month of graduating he had undertaken his first freelance assignment for Time Magazine, and six years later, while working on The Observer, found himself described as one of Britain’s leading photojournalists by France’s Photo and Italy’s Corriera della Sera. Since leaving the Observer, Ben Gibson has worked for many of the world’s leading magazines, on assignments that have taken him to over a hundred countries.

Still a firm believer in being in the right place at the right time, his passionate pursuit of excellence has not been achieved without difficulty. In 1991 he was held hostage in Somalia for 5 days and in 2003 he survived a serious helicopter crash. Having now expanded his work to include industrial reportage, Ben Gibson recently completed a three year commission for British Petroleum plc, and is currently working on a major long-term project entitled “Energy, the New Frontier”.