Born in San Diego, Ben Fash celebrated half of his childhood in Copán, Honduras and the other half between the Illinois cornfields and Boston suburbs. He received his BA with High Honors in Studio Art from Wesleyan University in 2007, and also studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute. Ben weaves his creativity into his passion for social and environmental issues. At Wesleyan, he received a Freeman research grant to study and make photographs about the social and natural environment of Buddhist nuns in Ladakh, India. While there, he lived with monks, nuns and families, learned to make and enjoy butter-salt tea, and helped lay mud bricks for nunneries. Ben also received the Jamie Hulley Prize to make photographs about work, childhood, and natural resources in Honduras. His conservation work began in 2008, pioneering an experimental reforestation project with 34 species in Copán, Honduras. Ben also loves to teach: in 2010, he designed and co-taught New Root's ecological restoration workshop in Honduras and taught photography at the Oxbow School Summer Art Camp in Napa, CA. |
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