Benoit’s work as a still life photographer contrasts with a youth spent playing rugby in Biarritz, France. From a contact sport of bursting action and movement, to the patience and calm that are part of the DNA of his medium of choice, he still goes to extremes today in his choice of subject matter. The highly stylised work he does in Beauty, where bending the rules of physics is a must, to creating abstractions of liquids that won’t hold shape. Benoit finds grandeur in the most minute detail, amusement in lighting, and hunger in shaping new creation.
