Harmlessly “mad”. Salvador Dali – “The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad”
- Just don’t want to be like others, far prefer to be self-sufficient rather than being a sheep in society who follows everyone else’s lead.

‘Benzwaves’ photography was started by Benjamin Sherack in 2006. For years he worked as an aerial photographer within his fathers business “SKYCAM AUSTRALIA”. They used radio controlled planes to take aerials above and around Australia until moving to buy their own commercial light plane in 1995.
Ben’s father “roger Sherack”, a draughtsman guru by trade, built radio controlled planes as a hobby and, discovering that they were ideal for aerial photography, turned his hobby into a career and now shoots aerials for Australia’s major construction companies which included the 2000 Olympic site in sydney during the 7 years of development. To get the views demanded by their engineering and surveying customers they take a series of images using hi-end digital equipment then carefully stitching together the final picture to create a huge compose mosaic image.

Growing up at Avoca on the Central Coast instilled a love of surfing in Ben who originally trained as an Electrician after leaving school.
“I was a border at The Scots College, Sydney and really missed the beach and coast” he says..

His love of the beach and surfing is reflected in his personal shots, seeing most of the Australian coast and his favorite surf breaks from an aerial perspective has given Ben the edge for surf and extreme sports photography.

Although he had an interest in surf photography, Ben initially joined his fathers business while studying his photography Diploma at Ultimo TAFE to attain the experience and knowledge of commercial photography.
Recently branching off to create BENZWAVES PHOTOGRAPHY and now shoots from the land and sea, however when the volume of work is ‘HIGH’, father and son will work together, with one piloting and one photographing.

Fran Malloy: Digital Photography + Design Magazine Pro-File ..
Aug/Sep 2007