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There is a thread that runs through every culture, woven into the fabric of traditional dress, carried in the cadence of ancient folktales, alive in the faces of people living close to the land and its stories. It is a thread that most of us sense but rarely follow. Benjamin has spent years following it, and this exhibition is the record of that pursuit. Born in New York, he came of age professionally as a commercial photographer in California before leaving the familiar behind and embracing a nomadic existence, following curiosity wherever it led. His travels have taken him far from well-worn tourist paths and into the heart of remote communities where ancient ways of life still hold, where clothing is not fashion but identity, where stories are not entertainment but living history, and where the relationship between a people and their land remains unbroken.

In these places, Benjamin works slowly and with great care. He studies the folk heritage of each community he visits, learning the significance of the garments worn, the symbols carried, and the legends told. His camera captures what words struggle to hold: the dignity, beauty, and quiet resilience of cultures the modern world too often overlooks or forgets entirely. Each portrait is more than a photograph. It is an act of witness, a gesture of respect, and a plea for preservation in an era when so much of the world's cultural richness is disappearing without record.

But Benjamin doesn't stop at the image. Inspired by the vivid legends and mythologies he encounters along the way, he is transforming his journeys into an original mythological fantasy series, a narrative saga rooted in the real places, real faces, and real stories he has encountered across the globe. In both his photography and his writing, the conviction is the same: that beneath our extraordinary diversity, across borders, languages, religions, and generations, a single line connects us all. One Line, One World is an invitation to see that line, to trace it from face to face and culture to culture, and to feel, perhaps for the first time, that the thread, wherever it leads, always finds its way home.

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