PROSHOOT

With 25 years' experience as an electro-technical systems engineer in the steel, plastics, tobacco, timber and marine industries, Upper Hutt-based photographer Keith Bennett currently works with the Upper Hutt City Council (UHCC) to showcase local businesses and the Upper Hutt region. Born in London, he moved to New Zealand when he was ten years old and now enjoys living with magnificent views of Upper Hutt from its Riverstone Terraces... Having lived and worked around the world, Keith has been presented with many photographic opportunities including time amongst ancient mountain-top villages in Spain, and four years aboard super-yachts - swimming with Manta rays in the Andaman Islands and photographing whales breaching in the Dominican Republic. His photographs have been published in yachting magazines (winning three awards), pictorial calendars, marketing material for UHCC and local businesses, Track and Wheel magazine, local newspapers such as the Upper Hutt Leader and Valley..