Benjamin Gibson
Toronto, ON
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Benjamin Gibson is a Canadian award-winning Toronto-based photographer and Creative Director whose work examines the uneasy overlap and coexistence between darkness and beauty. Gibson’s practice draws from both personal experience and broader social conditions, engaging subjects that range from recovery and identity to systems of consumption and environmental change. He grew up in a rural part of Ontario surrounded by nature and has always had a connection and reverence for the world around us. Gibson was drawn to Toronto’s urban environment and moved to the city centre at eighteen. He began his artistic practice painting on canvas, but moved into commercial film and photography after the technical aspect challenged his curiosity. Much like life it began simply but Gibson challenges himself relentlessly, to a fault. Gibson studied Art and Design and Humber College, but attributes most of his practical skills to lived experience, intuition and forced-improvisation through moments of commercial work, design and physical design and production. He learned sometimes the answer comes, because it simply has to come. Gibson’s work has been published in a number of Art Publications including Divide Magazine, Photographica and Nauvo Arts Magazine among others. Gibson received the 3rd Prize Modern Muse – Photo Artfolio in 2025; and his photography book Canada Series 1 A Photography Book was a finalist in the 2025 Urban Photo Book Awards. His work has contributed to the Toronto Archives and the National Gallery of Canada Archives.
