Outdoor

A pink balloon rises into a pale sky above two others, a tiny balloon far off.

A small vehicle on a dune crest, animated against a warm, hazy sky.

Four hikers silhouetted on a ridge at sunset, the Matterhorn beyond them, for the EF Adventures launch.

Education First

A red Suzuki Hustler tucked into a carport full of plants.

Ford Explorer parked with mountaineers below snowy alpine peaks.

Ready Set Ford: Adventure

A blue Ford Kuga with a trailer of quad bikes parked beside a lake in dry, rocky hills.

Ready Set Ford: Kuga

A road runs straight towards a snowy peak under a pale sun.

Sunrise over the buttes of Monument Valley.

A Land Rover Discovery rescue vehicle on open moorland beneath the Galtee Mountains.

Mountain Rescue

A concrete building and stairway in Tokyo, a figure on the steps among trees.

Moments from Japan

A buggy climbs a black quarry slope, in a short looping sequence.

Formula Offroad

A Land Rover Discovery and Airstream on a causeway among sea stacks in Jersey.

Michael & Jack Whitehall

A dark grey Mitsubishi L200 Barbarian pitch-side at Twickenham Stadium, rugby posts behind.

Rust shapes on dark car paint.

An orange Pontiac GTO side-on against sand, sea and sky.

Two surfers carry their boards up a sloping street past a blue Lexus UX.

Street View Portraits

Outdoor, Adventure and Automotive Photographer

Sam Bénard is a London-based outdoor and adventure photographer shooting landscape, travel and automotive campaigns in places that are hard to reach and harder to work in, which is where the best pictures tend to be.

Namibia's dunes for Land Rover, at altitude in the Alps for Ford and EF Adventures, lava fields in Iceland, a balloon festival in the Swiss mountains. The automotive photography belongs to the same world, cars and the places they were made for, photographed with the same eye for light and terrain, for Ford, Land Rover, Lexus, Jaguar and Mitsubishi. Personal road trips, from the American West to Japan, keep the eye sharp between commissions.