Jake Benzinger is a photographer, book artist, writer, and educator based between Providence, RI, and Rockland, ME. He received his BFA in photography from Lesley University, College of Art and Design, and is currently an MFA candidate at Rhode Island School of Design. His work explores notions of belief, weaving together imagery to navigate the space between fiction and reality, investigating themes of identity, myth, phenomena, and death.
His work has been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Haute Photographie Rotterdam, Center for Fine Art Photography, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Candela Books + Gallery, 82Parris, Panopticon Gallery, RIT City Space Gallery, and more. He has been featured by numerous platforms, including GUP Magazine, Lensculture, Float Magazine, Lenscratch, Transference Magazine, and Fraction Magazine, and his publications are held in collections at the National Gallery of Art, the School of Visual Arts, SMFA at Tufts, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. His monograph, Like Dust Settling in a Dim-Lit Room (Or Starless Forest), was shortlisted for the 2023 Lucie Photobook Prize and has since sold out of its second edition.
Jake is a photography and book arts workshop instructor, content editor for Lenscratch, and the founder/director of wych elm, an independent press creating small-run photo books, zines, and fine art ephemera.
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His work has been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions at the Griffin Museum of Photography, Haute Photographie Rotterdam, Center for Fine Art Photography, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Candela Books + Gallery, 82Parris, Panopticon Gallery, RIT City Space Gallery, and more. He has been featured by numerous platforms, including GUP Magazine, Lensculture, Float Magazine, Lenscratch, Transference Magazine, and Fraction Magazine, and his publications are held in collections at the National Gallery of Art, the School of Visual Arts, SMFA at Tufts, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. His monograph, Like Dust Settling in a Dim-Lit Room (Or Starless Forest), was shortlisted for the 2023 Lucie Photobook Prize and has since sold out of its second edition.
Jake is a photography and book arts workshop instructor, content editor for Lenscratch, and the founder/director of wych elm, an independent press creating small-run photo books, zines, and fine art ephemera.
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Jake is open to shoots, commissions, exhibition opportunities, curatorial projects, workshops, and print inquiries.
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Contact:
︎ jakebenzinger@gmail.com
©Jake Benzinger
©Jake Benzinger