Matthew Benson's photography is in the permanent collection of the International Center of Photography, New York, as well as numerous private and gallery collections. His work has been awarded both DESI and Society of Publication Designers Awards and appears regularly in magazines, books, catalogs and folios. He is on the National Speakers Tour for the Garden Clubs of America, and lectures widely on Garden and Landscape Photography.

Magazine clients include House & Garden, Traditional Home, Better Homes & Gardens, Conde Nast Traveler, Esquire, GQ, This Old House, The New York Times, Garden Design, Country Home, Country Living, Country Gardens, Saveur, Martha Stewart Everyday Food, Martha Stewart Everyday Baking.

Book contributions include the Garden Primer (Workman), Garden Style (Harper Collins), The Home Outside (Taunton), Saveur Cooks Everyday Italian (Harper Collins), The Garden Design Book of Gardens (Harper Collins), Small Space Gardens (Conran Octopus), Rodale: Perennials, Roses, Annuals (Rodale Press), Container Gardening (Sunset), Manspace (Taunton Press).

Raised and educated in Europe, with a Masters Degree from Columbia University, he is a trans-Atlantic sailor and alpine skier. Architecture, Design, horticulture and bio-intensive organic farming are ongoing interests, as is the restoration of Stonegate Farm ( http://www.stonegatefarmNY.org ), the 1860s Carpenter Gothic farm he shares with his wife Heidi, and children Daisy Marlena and Miles.