Benjamin Lowy was born on 1979 and is an American photojournalist.
19 Facts About Benjamin Lowy
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Benjamin Lowy is best known for his work as a conflict photographer in war zones, and is one of the early adopters of and a vocal proponent for mobile photography.
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Benjamin Lowy was heavily influenced by Inferno, a book of James Nachtwey's war crimes photos from the 1990s.
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Shortly after graduating from college, Benjamin Lowy was hired by the Corbis photo agency and assigned to cover the Iraq War for Time magazine.
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Benjamin Lowy covered the war from 2003 to 2008, embedded with numerous units of the American and Iraqi military.
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In October 2011, The New York Times Magazine published "Life During Wartime," a collection of 33 Hipstamatic photos Benjamin Lowy took of daily life in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Benjamin Lowy's photos taken in Libya's war zone were published as a photoblog on NBC News online, and were featured in GQ.
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Benjamin Lowy started out primarily using 35-millimeter digital SLRs, before becoming a pioneer of cellphone photography.
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Benjamin Lowy is a vocal proponent of the Instagram and Hipstamatic apps, and in-camera digital processing in general.
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Benjamin Lowy began shooting on an iPhone in 2008, shortly after it first came out, and began using the Hipstamatic app around the time it launched in 2010.
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Benjamin Lowy collaborated with the company on the new filter, which has minimal processing, was released in 2012 and named The Lowy Lens.
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Benjamin Lowy has been publicly defending cellphone photography since 2009, viewing it as an artistic choice, much like photographers who choose black and white film over color.
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Benjamin Lowy feels the anonymity, ease of use and light weight of an iPhone is helpful when reporting in conflict zones.
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Benjamin Lowy appreciates that the resulting photos have a unique aesthetic, which helps bring attention for the war or social issues the images are documenting.
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In high intensity situations, Benjamin Lowy typically carries two Canon DSLRs, and prime lenses with a variety of focal lengths, depending on the situation; a film camera that shoots 6x6; and his iPhone.
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Benjamin Lowy covered the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill for GQ.
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Benjamin Lowy documented the cleanup and the toll the spill took on the environment.
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Benjamin Lowy covered the 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions for The New Yorker.
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Benjamin Lowy has covered stories in Darfur, Chad, Haiti, Indonesia and China.