Benny Migliorino (Migs) is a Long Island, NY–based environmental portrait artist and filmmaker. With a distinctive blend of technical skill and creative imagination, Migs transforms everyday locations into cinematic, big-budget productions through his mastery of lighting and composition. His work reveals the personality and culture of anyone who steps in front of his camera.
Throughout his career, Migs’ compelling images have been published in magazines such as Long Island Pulse, Nikon World, Popular Science, Shutterbug, Field & Stream, and Popular Photography, among others. In 2015, he published a book with Amherst Media: Alternative Portraiture: Artistic Lighting and Design for Environmental Photography, which educates readers about the role of light in portrait photography. In 2020, he self-published his coffee table book: Project Face Mask, a personal project documenting the impact of COVID-19 on the local workforce and community.
Expanding his creative range, Migs has also established himself in cinematography, producing corporate and business films in a documentary style that engages audiences with authentic storytelling rather than overt sales pitches.
In 2020, he immersed himself in the historic art of wet-plate collodion photography, a process practiced by fewer than 1,000 people worldwide. His dedication to preserving this rare craft was recognized in 2023 when he received a $10,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for his project Portraits with Purpose, which highlights fellow creatives.
Benny considers himself more of a historian than simply a photographer, documenting people and moments with the intent of preserving them for future generations.
“I wake up every morning upset—not because I have to go to work, but because I just wasted hours sleeping when I could’ve been documenting.
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