Hi, I'm Benjamin Cossel!

I've spent 20 years photographing chaos. It started in punk and metal clubs in the mid-2000s — Slayer, Rancid, Public Enemy. Then combat and wildland fire pulled my focus for over a decade: unpredictable, fast-moving, high-stakes work that sharpened the same instincts I'd first built in the pit. I'm back shooting live music now, bringing that same eye to the scenes I never stopped loving.