Bios, headshots and the mark.

Ben Garvin is a Minneapolis-based videographer, cinematographer and photojournalist. Over 30 years he has moved from newspaper darkrooms to television newsrooms to independent documentary work, carrying the same instinct through all of it: be in the room, stay longer than is comfortable, and wait for the true moment.

He began as a staff photographer at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and spent years as a photojournalist at KARE 11 in Minneapolis. In 2021 he went independent as a director, director of photography and editor. His editorial work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, PBS NewsHour, VICE News, Getty Images, MPR News and APM Reports. In 2026 he spent six weeks as an independent video journalist for The New York Times documenting federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.

Garvin co-directed and shot Love Them First: Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary, which won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, and shot and edited Finding Manoomin, directed by Leah Lemm for MPR News and Twin Cities PBS, which won an Upper Midwest Regional Emmy. He is a co-founder of Tiny Window Pictures with producer Lindsey Seavert, is an FAA Part 107 certified drone pilot, and is finishing the vérité documentary Emily Hope. He lives in south Minneapolis with his wife and four children.