My name is Peter Bennett. I was born and raised in New York City, and I picked up my first camera at the age of twelve. I was greatly influenced by my maternal grandfather, who owned a photo studio on the Coney Island Boardwalk in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, and my father, a cinematographer and film editor, as well as an enthusiastic amateur still photographer. I can safely say that between the two of them, our family was well documented.

I pursued a career as a magazine and travel photographer before opening my own stock photo agency in 1998, and it was there that I learned how to create effective workflows while managing and maintaining a large library of digital images.

Here’s the funny thing—while I had managed my own professional photo library as well as my agency’s, which represented over 30 photographers and thousands of images, all of them meticulously categorized, organized, labeled, and captioned—I realized that my own collection of personal and family photos was a mess. Actually, it was a complete disaster.

I knew that if it was happening to me, it was happening to others. So I decided to start Fotoflow Solutions in 2014 to take my years of experience and knowledge of photo management to people who really needed it, helping them organize their personal and family photos and preserve their family archives and visual legacy.

I have been a member of The Photo Managers since 2016 and an instructor at the Los Angeles Center of Photography since 2010.