A Life Shaped by Light and Travel Born in the quiet of Newmarket, Upper Canada, Benoni Irwin carried within him a spirit that refused to be tethered to a single landscape. His early years were rooted in a family of Quakers from the Scottish Borders, yet his eyes were always drawn toward the horizon. As a young man, he moved to upstate New York, where the foundations of his craft began to take shape. He sought out the rigorous training…