Benji Kontz
Benji Kontz (b. 1980) is a Luxembourg-based photographer who has held a passion for photography since childhood, beginning his education at the age of ten with a manual M42 camera. As a keen young ornithologist, birds were at the beginning amongst his favourite subjects.
After gaining his Baccalaureate of Science in Luxembourg, he studied Law in Paris at Sorbonne University. During this time Benji became primarily interested in street photography, working in black and white to capture the milieu of urban Paris.
After graduating with a Masters in International and Business Law, Benji moved to London to take the photographic CP3 course in studio lighting and digital photography at Photofusion, Brixton, led by Paul Ellis.
Benji had his first photographic solo exhibition, 'Focus on the Shore,' in 2005 (c.f. the article by the art critic Sophie Richard-Reisen). He was recently selected two times in a row by the jury of the Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg to participate at the 2019 and 2020 editions of the notorious Salon du CAL and was invited by the Sixth Floor art collective to participate at the 2020 year-end exhibition.
Some of his works created during the first lockdown periode will be on display at the COronART exhibition from 17th April until 10th July 2021 at the urban contemporary art gallery KAMELLEBUTTEK in Esch/Alzette.
Over the years, Benji’s work has become predominantly digital, although he still loves the handling of analogue medium format cameras and processing film or developing prints. The digital medium format Fuji GFX 100 and the semi-automatic digital Leica M are his current cameras of choice.
