Benjamin Haselberger was born in 1973 in Germany.
In 1997, before starting his photographic studies at University of Essen-Duisburg, Germany, his eye was drawn to concentration camps in Germany and Poland, which he extensively worked on while being an intern at VISUM Photo Agency, Germany.In 1998 he worked in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma, before becoming a press photographer intern at "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" in 2000.
Finishing his 2nd studies at FAS-Berlin until 2006 , he worked in Poland, postwar Bosnia, and extensively in Cambodia for 3 years.