photo: david rowland

Ben Northover

With a vast breadth of shooting experience in all situations and fully versed in both pan European and Worldwide accounts and clients, Ben can deliver exactly what’s needed every time.

He works impeccably with art directors, always adds to the image without straying off brief, speaks the language of clients and creatives alike and can work with large international and smaller national budgets.

Growing up around his father’s darkroom, seduced by its magic and captivated by the romance of black and white imagery, Ben Northover was only ever going to be a photographer from the moment his father stuck a box brownie in his five year-old hands.

Ever since then, photography has been the one constant in Ben’s life. At eight he was developing his own black and white shots, at 16 he was assisting a london photographer, turning 18 he was paid for his first picture and by the time he was 20 he was a fully-fledged freelance photographer.

A few years later he opened his own studio, learning the intricate challenges of lighting and composition in this controlled environment while discovering and developing his uncanny ability to uncover the true character of his subjects.

Then craving light, lush scenery and new experiences to shoot outside of the studio, he left these shores for California, New York and Oman. This period, working through such a vast spectrum of light conditions rarely found in the UK, developed Ben’s innate ability to shoot outdoors, manipulating available and artificial light to achieve desired results, both natural and surreal.

Ten years ago Ben returned to London a more rounded photographer where he amalgamated these remarkable location shooting abilities with his already strong studio skills and, adding his own dose of easygoing charm and understanding of how to make anyone, client or a subject, feel instantly at home in his studio or in front of his lens, began taking on advertising work for major clients.

Clients

Saatchi and Saatchi, Team Saatchi, O & M, DDB, Grey, Athletico, Vermilion, Gyro Group.

Red Stripe, Babybel, Laughing Cow, BT, Sport England, Manchester Utd, Manchester City, Maquarie Bank, Johnson and Johnson, McNeil, NSPCC, Comet, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Mirror Group, Louis Vuitton, Loewe, Philips, Recycle, SEAT, Hotpoint, Paralympics, Comic Relief, Warchild, Habitat for Humanity.