His Story started when he first saw his father taking images with his pocket Minox camera. Buying himself his first Canon AT-1 at the age of 15 the foundation for a long lasting Love for Photography was layed.  Over the next years he developed his own addiction to Photography, even shipping his Camera Equipment to a Refugee Camp in Albania in 1999, which he was buidling under the Flag of the Red Cross and the Malteser International (Order of Malta Worldwide Relief). This was when he published his first full spread in a local Austrian Newspaper.

Shortly after he moved to London to study Photography for two years.

Since his return from London in 2001, Benedikt has worked in Vienna for regional Newspapers and Agencies e.g. Reuters and APA-Pictures.

Over time and during his extensive travels to more than 120 countries, he worked for the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foraign Affairs of Austria and has become the Head Photographer at the World Econmic Forum.