Feature writer ・ Photographer ・ Founder of The Dartmoor Artisan Trail

Suzy Bennett is an award-winning travel journalist and photographer for the national press.

Suzy spent the first 20 years of her career specialising in adventure travel and now works closer to home in her beloved Devon, where she reports on the county’s finest travel offerings. She handles all the Devon coverage for Telegraph Travel and writes regularly for The Times and Conde Nast Traveller.

Alongside her travel work, Suzy is one of the UK’s leading writers and photographers of traditional crafts. She founded The Dartmoor Artisan Trail, an arts, craft and food network linking Dartmoor's traditional craftspeople, artists and producers. The trail was featured BBC Countryfile and was highly acclaimed in the national media, where it was named the UK's best new travel experience by The Guardian. The British Guild of Travel Writers also awarded it the UK’s best new travel experience, and Suzy was handed Heritage Crafts Association's Volunteer Award for her work on it.

Suzy’s photographic portraits of Dartmoor’s artisans formed solo exhibitions at the prestigious Devon Guild of Craftsmen and Dartmoor National Park's visitor centre.

From her career as an adventure travel journalist, Suzy highlights include tracking gorillas in Rwanda, hiking to little-known tribes in Papua New Guinea and scuba-diving World War One shipwrecks in the Orkney Isles.

Prior to that, she worked as crime reporter at the Old Bailey. She is a scuba-diving instructor and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

She welcomes commissions and ideas for collaborations.