A2 Photography Exam – Artist Research – David Benjamin Sherry

David Benjamin Sherry is an American photographer who was born in Woodstock, New York, on the 14th of January, 1981, he is now based in Los Angeles. Majority of his work is large format film photography, of which he focuses on landscapes and portraits.

He went to the the Rhode Island School of Design and received his BFA in photography in 2003 and then went to Yale University and got his MFA in photography in 2007.

Most of his Landscapes don’t include modern or urban structures, but they all have a sense of bare landscape, which is something to do with the desert, rocky lands he photographs.

The signature trait of his work is the colours that are overlaid on top of his images that make them seem other worldly.

His work has been exhibited in places such as New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Berlin, London and Aspen.

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