Benedict Redgrove

Benedict Redgrove has a lifelong fascination with innovation and industry, and is a dedicated proponent of good design, modernism and utilitarianism. He has a love for extremes be that physical, environmental or technological. His love of sci-fi and space exploration has intuitively led him to capturing projects and objects at their most cutting edge. He has created an aesthetic of photography that is clean, pure and devoid of any miscellaneous information, winning him acclaim and numerous awards.

He has amassed a following and client base over the past 20+ years from some of the most advanced companies in the world. Commercially he’s shot global campaigns for major automotive and aeronautical companies including BMW, Audi, Aston Martin, Red Bull Racing, BA and BAe; tech giants Apple, Hewlett Packard, IBM and GE and media brands Sky, Sony and T-Mobile.  He is regularly commissioned by magazines to shoot significant and iconic spaces and objects - his aesthetic and understanding of the principles of good and timeless design are intrinsic to his image making.

In his personal work he has been granted access to secret and often hidden divisions at organisations such as Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, UK Ministry of Defence, Royal Air Force, European Space Agency, British Aerospace and NASA. Whether capturing the U-2 reconnaissance pilots and stealth planes, the Navy Bomb Disposal or spending time documenting the Royal Marines, Benedict strives to capture the scope and scale of advancements, invoking an emotional response to the objects and places and asking what they mean to us as human beings.

A career spent recording the pioneering technology of human endeavours has produced a photographic art form that gives viewers a window into an often-unseen world.

Benedict has participated in group shows in the UK and Europe and staged his first solo exhibition of expressionist cloudscapes in 2016. His first book NASA: Past & Present Dreams of the Future was published in 2019 to critical acclaim – an ambitious and vast project documenting the craft and objects of NASA which was about 10 years in the making. He is working towards an exhibition of this project to launch in 2026.