Benjamin Von Wong
Benjamin Von Wong was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on November 14th, 1986 and is the Photographer. At the age of 37, Benjamin Von Wong biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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In 2013, he collaborated with Nikon and musician Andrew Kesler to produce the Nikon Symphony, a free ringtone made with $30,000 of dSLR gear.
In 2014, he was one of Flickr's weekly featured artists for his underwater photography taken in the Tulamben shipwreck in Bali, Indonesia.
In 2015, Von Wong was hired by cell phone manufacturer Huawei to demonstrate the capabilities of its P8 cell phone camera. Von Wong combined visual arts with pyrotechnics to create an image of a live model surrounded by fire without the help of Photoshop.
In 2017, Von Wong transformed a lifetime of Electronic Waste into art sculptures. These pieces were made from recovered electronics came from Dell’s Global Recycling Program. He also hung social entrepreneurs off a 30 story skyscraper in the Philippines after he was challenged by Nike to creatively promote its latest line of shoes.
In 2018, Von Wong built the world's tallest closet in Cairo, Egypt, made from 3,000 articles of clothing -- representing one lifetime of clothing -- standing nine meters tall. After the installation was disassembled, Von Wong donated the clothing to Egyptian refugees. In Corfu, Greece - collaboration with Greenpeace and aerialist Katerina Soldatou to illustrate the statistic: “Every 60 seconds, a truckload of plastic flows into the ocean”
In 2019, Von Wong earned a Guinness World Record for "Strawpocalypse," the largest supported art installation made from plastic drinking straws. Von Wong re-purposed used straws to raise awareness around the environmental damage to the ocean caused by plastics. He collaborated with the National Environment Agency and the Canadian High Commission in Singapore to create an art installation titled “Plastikophobia” made from 18,000 plastic cups for a solo gallery exhibition at the Sustainable Singapore Galleries.
In 2021, Von Wong created the #TurnOffThePlasticTap project to bring awareness to the volume of plastics being dumped into our oceans. The project is also known as #GiantPlasticTap and garnered good visibility in its desire to impact Cop26.
In March 2022, he was invited to recreate the tap in Kenya for the United Nations Environmental Assembly where a historic decision was made by UN member states to adopt a landmark mandate to develop a legally binding global Plastics Treaty with a full life cycle approach. He also gave his 3rd TEDx talk, entitled “Irrelevancy as fuel to generate collective action” at TEDxBoston on how his fear of irrelevancy is the principal motivation and source of creativity. He speaks to the evolving art of captivating attention for climate initiatives in today’s click bait world.”