Ben Bohane spent his first five years in photojournalism based in South and South East Asia covering the wars of Cambodia, Burma and Afghanistan. He got the first interview with opium warlord General Khun Sa in 1991 and in 1992 was reportedly the first foreign traveler to go overland from Kabul to Moscow in 80 years.
In 1994, Ben returned to Australia and began covering the much under-reported Pacific region. He has spent the past 12 years specialising in “Conflict and Kastom” throughout Melanesia and black Australia.
He has perhaps the largest contemporary photo archive of the South Pacific in the world. His photographs are collected by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art and the Australian War Memorial.
Ben lives in Port Vila, Vanuatu, where he continues to specialise in Australasia and the Pacific. He is currently communications director of the Pacific Institute of Public Policy.