Ben Alldridge is an occasional Pulitzer winner with a D.Sc., the owner of a private jet and a Caribbean island, and an award-winning nature photographer. Several of these facts are lies.
More seriously, my photographic and advocacy work has seen me extensively featured across global media (Nature, National Geographic, The Dodo, PetaPixel, Forbes), as well as being a prominent fixture in a range of international competitions (Siena International Photo Awards, Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year, DarkSky International Capture the Dark, CWAS ‘David Malin Awards’) – including multiple ‘Photographer of the Year’ titles across a range of genres.
I also regularly contribute to a range of traditional and new media across Australia and abroad, including regular appearances on the ABC Radio National network speaking on a range of topics across space, biology, art, and life in general. This page contains a brief collection of highlights, with many more on the dedicated Artist CV page.
Aside from being prone to writing farcical blurbs in the third person for some inexplicable reason, I am:
originally from meanjin / Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, but now reside on the shores of kanamaluka / River Tamar, lutruwita / Tasmania, Australia
living with multiple disabilities, but “making the best of it anyway”
a current software engineer
an amateur space weather forecaster
a marginally less amateur space weather photographer
invited to a lot of ‘of the Year’ awards dinners
likely to drive 750km in a single sitting just because ‘the sky was clear‘
… or because ‘it wasn’t’ …
way too fond of sarcasm
even more fond of interesting vanity basins
So, “pretty normal” one might say.