Originally from Toulon, in the south of France, Ben grew up by the sea. His older brothers taught him surfing from a young age, which translated in a deep love for the ocean. In parallel, Ben joined painting classes, and was mostly focused on painting ocean and waves. It's only as a teenager that Ben discovered photography, accidentally finding an old camera in his parents’ attic. Trying his hands at photography as a teenage he becomes fascinated by the whole process. Ben manages to convince his parents to let him study photography after his baccalaureat, and moves to Paris with a camera and a 50mm. His first year is spent shooting Paris from all angles, consuming dozens, even hundreds of Kodak films TRI-X 400 that he develops in his bathroom and prints at school. But sadly Paris is far from the sea, and surfing is not an option there… and Ben misses both terribly. On a whim, he drops out of photography school halfway through the year to fly to Hawaii ! January 2006, he’s 19 years old, and lands on Maui, Hawaii, with his home-made waterhousing and spends the next 3 months swimming at Ho'okipa every single day regardless of the conditions. The following steps are a long story but here are some important dates :

- 2004/2005 : Photography school : ICART Paris

- 2006 : First trip to Hawaii.

- 2007 : First trip to Tahiti

- 2008 : Moving to Tahiti

- 2013 : RED BULL ILLUME Semi Finalist : Illumination Categor

- 2014 : ISPO AWARD Gold Winner : Photo Category

- 2016 : SALT AWARD Winner : Water category

- 2016 : RED BULL ILLUME Finalist : Masterpiece Category

- 2016 : MONSTER CHILDREN Photo competition Winner : Action Category

- 2017 : CANON Editor's Choice Contest Winner : Sports + Nature Categories

- 2017 : WSSF - Olympus Pro Photographer Show Down : People's Choice Winner

- 2018 : Publication of my first book SURFACE

- 2018 : Publication of BEAUTE MER by National Geographic

- 2019 : RED BULL ILLUME / Over all Winner & Category Winner : Energy

- 2021 : Whalebone Photo contest, Finalist : Water + Weather categories

- 2021 : Paris Sport Photo, Finalist : Sport Extremes + Portfolio categories

- 2021 : Ocean Photography Award : Adventure photographer of the year 

- 2021 : Publication of my second book TURBULENCES

- 2022 : Ocean Photographer of The Year by Ocean Photography Awards