Ben Tessler
Ben Started his career in Television at Channel Nine Perth in 1990 as a sports / production cameraman. After gaining three years valuable experience covering international Test cricket, NBL and Rugby league as part of multi-camera outside broadcasts, he moved into single camera news and current affairs.
In 1996 Ben moved to London and joined The London News Network as a staff cameraman covering news, current affairs, entertainment and features for a variety of programmes on ITV.
In 1998, Ben continued in London as a freelance cameraman, spending three years working on ITV's flagship travel series "Dream Ticket" before joining the BBC's international news gathering teams covering major events including Afghanistan, Kosovo, Russia and Northern Ireland.
In the last years of living in London, TWI made Ben one of its freelance cameramen and sent him to cover some of the worlds biggest sporting events including the NFL Suerbowl, 2006 FIFA world cup, AFC Asia cup, UEFA European cup ,Beijing Olympic games and recently the 2010 FIFA world cup.
Other clients in the UK have included Channel Five, BBC Three, NBC, FOX, France 1, ZDF, ARD, AL Jazeera, Channel Nine Australia, ABC (Aust), TVNZ and bureau cameraman at Channel Seven Australia.
Ben is now based in Perth as a freelance cameraman.
