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Some years ago when Ben and I were in school together we were given an assignment in some class one night. The teacher handed everyone digital cameras and said go shoot up the city for an hour, when we were done, we would all go over the work together. Ben and I went to the coffee shop instead. I think I burned a few frames along the way.

When we returned to class, we began the tedious task of going over all these images. Someone actually came back with over 200 frames. Nobody told them that we were shooting still photographs, not movies. Most of it was just garbage.

So Ben steps up and plugs in the camera, and he’s got 4 frames on his memory card. No joke, 4 frames. I thought the professor was going to stroke out. But I swear that these 4 frames were 4 of the best photographs I’d seen in a long time. That’s the way this guy worked, one frame at a time. To this day those of us that knew him back them call him by the nickname he earned, Benny 4 Frames.

If you are anywhere near Vancouver, I would strongly recommend you check out his work featured in the upcoming show at the Exposure Gallery. If not, have a look at Ben Huang’s website, or he keeps a web log as well.