Ben Connolly is a Queensland based, Internationally acclaimed Wedding Photographer, Speaker, Educator and Photography Judge. Ben is the Founder of Ben Connolly Creative, a boutique wedding photography studio based in Australia focussing on weddings and working with over 50 couples per year, with a Photography career spanning over 22 years and over one thousand weddings.

Ben is the 2025 Australian Creative Photographer of the Year, the highest ranked Australian in 4 International Photography Competitions and has been named in the World Top 100 Wedding Photographers for the past 5 years. He is a competition Judge, has spoken to audiences in Australia, USA, Japan, Malaysia the UK and is a Brand Ambassador for numerous photography industry companies world wide.

After a near fatal skydiving accident in 2002, Ben shifted focus to weddings and developed a passion for the use of flash and creative lighting in his work. Creatively, Ben is drawn to creative lighting techniques and the more technical side of crafting beautiful imagery. Ben’s photographs are bold and colourful with an unconventional mix of detailed posing, creative lighting and off camera flash.

Ben also has a passion sharing his photography and business learnings, along with his successes and failures to help others better understand photography and business to enable and empower them to bring their unique visions of photography and success to life.

Ben does this by working with photographers and business owners one on one or in workshop settings worldwide to give them advanced photography skills, strategic business direction, creative inspiration and the creation of systems and processes to create sustainable, profitable and successful businesses.