Welcome in to the online home of Ben Casey Publishing. Ben is both a professional photographer and author, and has combined those skills to create a series of books about North Carolina waterways.

The latest in the series is Living Waters, a photo essay of both the natural beauty and people of the Trent River. Ben doesn't simply take pictures of a river - he takes the time to experience it. "I have found the only way to really understand a waterway and its people is to spend time on that waterway. My tools are a simple combination of a canoe, a paddle, a camera and a notebook." Ben starts in Jones County and takes you along the Trent all the way to the river mouth in Craven County.

Ben began the waterway series with what he calls "an interview with the Neuse River." Starting in Raleigh, Ben and his friends paddled through twists, turns and towns. At New Bern they continued the journey via power vessel until the Neuse met the Pamlico Sound. The result was All In One River.

Ben's first book introduced readers to both the characters and character of Pamlico County, Ben's home. Southern wit and charm abound in Mama Always Said.

Ben Casey has found a calling in these books. You'll learn about plans for future books by clicking here.

About Ben Casey

Ben was born just a few blocks from the Neuse River’s edge in New Bern, and grew up primarily in neighboring Pamlico County.

He says he took his first black & white photograph in 1967. Ben was a college sophmore.The subject was an attractive coed. Though her photo was used in a development publication for the college, Ben complains, "I never did get a date with her."

 But a career was launched.

Ben has been a teacher, an education administrator and ran a photography studio in Nashville, NC. But home called. In 1996 Ben returned to Pamlico County and settled on the water, just a few hundred yards from where he learned to swim as a child..

Ben has never been a doctor, nor has he played one on TV. The real-life Ben Casey lives on Dawson's Creek, overlooking the Neuse River. 

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