I would like to communicate through photography. In many ways my work is still in formation, still testing and navigating. Several interests are prominent, which can be categorised as relationships. For example; relationships between people, between places/spaces and between feelings. I long for what I call sustained immediacy, which I understand to be eternal issues, relevant for human consideration. How to be a son, a friend, a meaningful, sensitive human, in the world, but also to be valuable to myself. What I put into the camera, and what comes out on the paper goes through an internal emotional process which I hope has resonance for all of us.

Timon Benson (b.1998 Manchester)

Selected Exhibitions

2025 - Royal Photographic Society IPE 166 - Saatchi Gallery, London (group) - upcoming (5/8 - 16/9)
2025 - Voice of Matter - Heaven 11, Manchester (solo) - upcoming (1/8 - 8/8)
2025 - British Journal of Photography, Les Recontres d’Arles Open Walls - Gallery Huit, Arles (7/7 - 20/7)
2025 - Portraits Hellerau Photography Award - Technische Sammlungen, Dresden (group) - upcoming (27/6 - 19/10)
2025 - Fresh Eyes / GUP - Haute, Rotterdam (group)
2024 - About to Leave - New Art Gallery Walsall (group)
2024 - I Am Madly Awake At My Small Window - Ori, Berlin (group)
2024 - Reframe - Factory International, Manchester (group)
2023 - Compression - Southbank Centre, London (group)

Press

2025 - Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize Shortlist - National Portrait Gallery (awaiting decision)
2025 - Photoworks R&D Grant Award
2025 - FORMAT25 Portfolio Review Award
2025 - Royal Photographic Society IPE 166 selected
2025 - The Photographers Gallery instagram takeover (11/1 - 12/1)
2024 - Photographic Foundation Awards runner up
2024 - Art Quarterly, Autumn 2024
2024 - Plaster Magazine - The Ardwick Realists
2024 - Dazed - Jump Or Fall, I Am Madly Awake At My Small Window
2023 - Dazed - Space Afrika, Rainy Miller
2023 - Document Journal - Space Afrika, Rainy Miller
2023 - Dazed Summer Issue 2023 - Space Afrika
2022 - The Face - Rainy Miller, Blackhaine, Space Afrika
2022 - The Guardian - Blackhaine
2022 - Document Journal - Blackhaine
2021 - The Face - Rainy Miller

for enquiries contact timonbenson@protonmail.com