LocationMagdalena Contreras, Mexico
Member SinceDecember 02, 2020
Yuri Benitez
Yuri Benitez was born and raised in Mexico City, as an only child of a middle class conservative family.
At an early age, in middle school, he discovered photography as his favorite pastime as a result of an artistic grade he had to choose for the seventh grade.
Back in the 70's, he spent endless hours in the darkroom that his family had adapted in the attic of his house.
He was his own teacher, having just some publications from Kodak as a reference to learn about the process of shooting and developing B&W films.
This entire pastime became a passion and he decided to become a professional photographer, not before he finished a major in Communications at Universidad Anahuac.
At the very beginning he questioned himself about pursuing a commercial career or an artistic one. At the end he decided to go after a commercial one, and with the profits, he would support his artistic projects.
Twenty-five years have passed by without noticing and, now finally, he is able to self-support his own production and have time for his ideas.
He has always loved the richness and texture that a monochromatic image can render, maybe because of those moments of great excitement of discovery in the darkroom. He considers one of the best ways to reflect that beauty of shades of gray is to photograph the human figure, specifically the female body.
He has been highly inspired by classics like Helmut Newton, Herb Rittz, Christian Vogt, and lately by colleagues like Rdoslaw Pujan and André Brito.
Yuri has been an early adopter of digital techniques, when they became available back in the late 90's. Since then, he has been working comfortably with digital capture and has been surprised once again by the magic of the computers and the large format ink jet printers.
Although he keeps the use of Photoshop to a minimum (mostly retouching), he prefers to give more importance to the process of "image capture". He believes in the "old school" of doing everything right in front of the camera, because "everything shows".
The circumstances of working with beautiful models for his fashion clients and, the artistic expression that has always been present with him, led to the images he is working on his ongoing project.
Up to this day, he has been recognized for his artistic work by several international institutions, like the “Black and White Spiders Awards” (London), “Prix de la Photographie Paris” (France), Photoshoot Awards (Canada) , “Monochrome Awards”
and the "Moscow International Foto Awards", and his images had been published in full pictorials in "Dodho" magazine (Barcelona), and Digitalis Foto Magazin (Hungary).
You will probably find Yuri in his studio in Mexico City, setting the stage, experimenting with lights, creating atmospheres, or simply imagining new concepts for his new shooting.
At an early age, in middle school, he discovered photography as his favorite pastime as a result of an artistic grade he had to choose for the seventh grade.
Back in the 70's, he spent endless hours in the darkroom that his family had adapted in the attic of his house.
He was his own teacher, having just some publications from Kodak as a reference to learn about the process of shooting and developing B&W films.
This entire pastime became a passion and he decided to become a professional photographer, not before he finished a major in Communications at Universidad Anahuac.
At the very beginning he questioned himself about pursuing a commercial career or an artistic one. At the end he decided to go after a commercial one, and with the profits, he would support his artistic projects.
Twenty-five years have passed by without noticing and, now finally, he is able to self-support his own production and have time for his ideas.
He has always loved the richness and texture that a monochromatic image can render, maybe because of those moments of great excitement of discovery in the darkroom. He considers one of the best ways to reflect that beauty of shades of gray is to photograph the human figure, specifically the female body.
He has been highly inspired by classics like Helmut Newton, Herb Rittz, Christian Vogt, and lately by colleagues like Rdoslaw Pujan and André Brito.
Yuri has been an early adopter of digital techniques, when they became available back in the late 90's. Since then, he has been working comfortably with digital capture and has been surprised once again by the magic of the computers and the large format ink jet printers.
Although he keeps the use of Photoshop to a minimum (mostly retouching), he prefers to give more importance to the process of "image capture". He believes in the "old school" of doing everything right in front of the camera, because "everything shows".
The circumstances of working with beautiful models for his fashion clients and, the artistic expression that has always been present with him, led to the images he is working on his ongoing project.
Up to this day, he has been recognized for his artistic work by several international institutions, like the “Black and White Spiders Awards” (London), “Prix de la Photographie Paris” (France), Photoshoot Awards (Canada) , “Monochrome Awards”
and the "Moscow International Foto Awards", and his images had been published in full pictorials in "Dodho" magazine (Barcelona), and Digitalis Foto Magazin (Hungary).
You will probably find Yuri in his studio in Mexico City, setting the stage, experimenting with lights, creating atmospheres, or simply imagining new concepts for his new shooting.
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