Ben Premeaux, photographer and documentary filmmaker, is a benevolent disruption. 

Reimagining traditional notions of composition, his conceptual and technological explorations reveal the layered truth of a single moment. However the single moment becomes a visual fugue of sorts, an inky and contemporary step into the baroque. Connections: CLT is a public work at Charlotte Douglas International Airport utilizing the same 360° photography Google uses to systematically map houses, businesses, and streets. Honeycomb, geometric, and quilted patterns wrap the viewer around the rooms and artifacts of Premeaux’s everyday people. In a technological age that paradoxically connects and isolates, these works manage to wrap viewer, subject, and entire communities up in an intimate embrace. 

Via his cubed forms, Premeaux’s deeper photographic practice does the double duty of drawing the viewer into an authentic experience while boldly embracing the reality that all imagery is an illusion predicated on manipulation. This particular digging into a refreshing and unvarnished truth elegantly dovetails into his fascination with the photographer as an editor of time, moments, lives, and illusions.

An educator for 14 years, Premeaux is distinguished as the Winter 2011 Art Teacher-In-Resident at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation.  His work as the McColl AIR photographer from 2009-2017 and video documentarian of McColl AIR’s from 2011-2017 is archived on the institution’s YouTube channel.

Premeaux is also the principal of The smARTlab, a premiere design, production, photography, and video documentation entity sporting luminary clients such as contemporary artist Mel Chin, music artist J. Cole, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Gantt Center, and Levine Center for the Arts.