Benjamin Erlandson

Benjamin Erlandson, Ph.D. is a photographer and multimedia creator, shooting for more than thirty years and creating motion-based works for nearly as long, first experiencing stop-motion animation at a summer camp during middle school. Ben has degrees from UNC-Asheville, Emerson College, and Arizona State University.
His latest collaborative stop motion animated short film Monster News Feed has been featured and awarded in several film festivals, including Best Experimental Film at Frostbite International Indie Fest. Ben’s nature photography has been featured in solo and juried shows and published in journals such as Burningword Literary, The Esthetic Apostle, and Camas. In 2020, one of his photos was selected as the inaugural Conservation Award winner by the Appalachian Mountain Club.
A relatively new exploration and practice, his environmental modeling and portraiture photography has been consistently published internationally since October 2020.
Having lived and worked in Asheville, Boston, Tempe, Monterey Bay, Berkeley, and Washington, DC, Ben currently resides in the quiet mountains of Glade Valley, North Carolina. Whenever the opportunity arises, he travels the world, always taking as many cameras as he can fit into his bag.

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• Valdosta National 2022 (Juried Selection). Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery. Valdosta State University. - Valdosta, Georgia, 2022
• National Parks Of The United States (Juried Selection) - Boulder, Colorado, 2021
• Waterloo Photography Invitational 2021 (Juried Selection). Photocentric Gallery - Cleveland, Ohio, 2021
• ART IN THE TIME OF CORONA™ Vol.1 GALLERY EXHIBITION - Ventura, California, 2021
• Inaugural Conservation Award. Appalachian Mountain Club Photo Contest - Boston, Massachusetts, 2020
• 2020 Photography Show (Juried Selection). Spanish Peaks Arts Council - La Veta, Colorado, 2020
• 2020 Bank of the Arts National Juried Exhibition (Juried Selection). Craven Arts Council - New Bern, North Carolina, 2020

• Arizona State University, PhD, Educational Technology - Tempe, Arizona,2010 
• Emerson College, MA, New Media Production - Boston, Massachusetts,2003 
• University of North Carolina, Asheville, BA, Multimedia Arts and Sciences - Asheville, North Carolina,2001