Benjamin Gaskell

His father was a jazz musician and his mother a painter, Benjamin Gaskell was raised to hold art and expression as essential hallmarks of the human experience. While he wasn't cut out to be a musician, nor a painter, he's made a home in the film industry as a professional cinematographer. It didn't really quite happen until the summer of 2012, when his first feature film, "Honor Flight: Stars & Stripes", premiered to a crowd of almost 30,000 people (breaking a world record) that Ben gained a clear sense of confidence and quiet understanding that he would never do anything else as a professional vocation in his life other than be a cinematographer. He remains ceaselessly committed to his craft. Later that same year a lucky few of the projects were featured on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2012), while others tallied several million views on YouTube, including the breakout fan-fiction series "Nightwing" for the creative collective Ismahawk. In 2015, he was accepted into a private cinematography institute founded by two members of the American Society Cinematographers where he studied under several members of ASC. He continues to freelance as a director of photography and holds a membership in good standing with the Society of Camera Operators. When he's not on set, Benjamin can be found volunteering with the American Society of Cinematographers, reading copious amounts of fiction, practicing his inability to paint watercolors. He tends to loathe selfies, but enjoys a fine tequila or mezcal.