Benoît Eon

Benoit Eon is a French still photographer known since his teens for his photos behind the scenes of the movie Good king Dagobert (Le Bon Roi Dagobert). Her grandmother Anne Caprile was a well-known actress from the 1950s to the 1970s and his grandfather Claude Baks was a friend and producer associated with the director Roberto Rossellini.

After completing his military service in France as a photographer and camera operator for the cinematographic and photographic institution of the armies, he became in 1992 one of the European pioneers in virtual editing & 3D image synthesis and participates as a subcontractor in the finalization of scenes of various movies like The Mask with Chuck Russel or The Fifth Element (Le Cinquième Élément) with Luc Besson.

He is also known in France for his photos of famous singers on stage or backstage, including in Cuba those of the famous Cuban group Buena Vista Social Club as well as those of very many singers of the French film Stars 80.