Benjamin Hiller is a German-American freelance photographer and writer currently based in Berlin, Germany. In 2008 he started his freelance career, focusing on the conflict zones in the Near-/Middle East as well as the Kurdish conflict in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. His recent trips include several travels, amounting to four months, into Syria as well as trips to Iraq, Rwanda, Crimea, Afghanistan, South Korea and the US-Mexican border area.