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Robert Benson
Robert Benson is a native Minnesotan who started taking pictures at 12 and printing them in his basement with an inverted slide projector as a poor boy's enlarger.
He spent 20 years in the Navy as a photographer, along the way twice earning the Military Photographer of the Year title(1995 and 1998). He was schooled in photojournalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where he was the 1998 student of the year. Benson now lives in San Diego, California.
He cut his teeth freelancing for newspapers and has developed a real curiosity in the various people he photographs, whether they are athletes, CEOs or inventors. His clients include ESPN the Magazine, Outside Magazine, Inc., the New York Times, USA Today and other local and national publications.
Still young at heart, he actively runs and swims and has completed more than 15 triathlons, one half Ironman, two marathons and other types of races.