Harry Borden

If you have 10 minutes, check out our latest video about the NY based artist Al Bensusen.

Sadly he died earlier this year so Fred and I finally did something with the footage I shot 10 years ago

Take a look. we'd love to hear what you think.
It's very personal and different to our usual fare.

Hope you like. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

https://youtu.be/KWIjQZz6kLI?si=hwBPKo7HFS6AXIb

Our channel is here: https://youtube.com/?si=sNxY_dUueVVVhpj2

The Jew That Made A Thing | A Short Film We have created a video in honour of a true creative. Someone who inspired Harry and continues to inspire Harry to this day.Albert Bensusen.https://www.legac...

Congratulations Keir Starmer. 😀
This was for the Guardian Sat Magazine last month. Thanks to
& for the commission. 🙏🙏

I'm at PHOTO NORTH festival in Leeds today exhibiting some pictures and stories from published with The School of Life.
If you are there, come and say hello!

A 'mute shoot' with KD Lang 1997.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_TyzPt3avE
Another Fred and Harry production. 🧡
Follow our channel here: https://www.youtube.com/
Thanks to the Observer Life Magazine. 💫🙏

Fred and Harry Borden - YouTube Harry Borden is a professional portrait photographer from the UK who has worked globally with a myriad of celebrities. He is also my Dad. This channel is ded...

My son Fred and I are making films and it's great to be working together. 🥰 He's interviewing me about my shoots and what I've learned from 30 years in photography. In the future we will explore other subjects and I can hopefully get him in front of the camera as he's much more photogenic! Anyway, here's the Duchess of Devonshire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcKyz3nyMTo
The channel is: https://www.youtube.com/
Feel free to 'like' and 'subscribe' 😀

Florian 16/10/23

Happy Birthday! 😍
My youngest has become a teenager.
This from a recent trip to Spain.
An amazing person, a beacon of light in our lives, and a recent collaborator on my latest book. Swipe to see his spread.

Excited to be talking about creativity and the genesis of 'On Divorce' at the Dulverton Exmoor Literary Festival 2023. Tickets for the event can be purchased here: https://bookwhen.com/dulvertonevents/e/ev-sgb9-20231119133000 Thanks to all my subjects and The School of Life who published the book in September. Visit Dulverton

Really lovely article about 'On Divorce' in
Amateur Photographer.
Thank you Amy Davies 🙏🙏🙏 Published by The School of Life the book came out last week. To purchase a copy: https://tinyurl.com/yv3kp2hy

Foyles Charing Cross Road - Tuesday 5th September.
Looking forward to seeing a few of my wonderful subjects at an event with The School of Life to coincide with the publication of On Divorce. The evening will include guided group discussion on the themes explored. Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/on-divorce
See you there! 😊

Slightly disconcerting to be on the other side of the camera but thank you The Guardian (via The Observer & Kit) for such a wonderful spread for my 3rd book, On Divorce. Thanks also to the wonderful The School of Life 🙏🙏🙏

How we break up: an anatomy of divorce Nearly half of marriages in the UK end in divorce. It can be acrimonious, expensive and hard on family. But it also heralds a new start. Here, a dozen divorcees reflect on what they’ve lived through

Sinéad O’Connor 12/3/2012

This was taken before a memorable gig at St George's Hall in Bristol.
Although the building had a neo-Classical grandeur, the patch of land it was located on was, in essence, an untended graveyard. Just the sort of place to take the photos.

As we wandered around this melancholic wilderness in central Bristol, she seemed so small and vulnerable.
Later on stage, she was a deity,. Completely spellbinding.

RIP Sinéad

Fergal Keane with his Mother, Maura  26/5/97

Anyone else hear his poignant book, The Madness, A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD serialised on radio 4 this week?

I’ve no idea if this portrait (taken for the Sunday Times) was ever used, but I’ve been meaning to get in touch as I figured he might like a print.

From the moment I was picked up from the Metropole hotel in Cork, he was so kind and welcoming.
“He’s one of us” he declared as he introduced me to his family.
After the shoot, they invited me to come sailing, but it was the weekend, and I’d left my wife Jane at home with our baby, so reluctantly, I headed to the airport…

Garry Fabian Miller and Nicholas J R White 24/10/2022

I went to the wrong location and spent a stressful hour criss-crossing bleak moorland before I found them, waiting patiently in Swallerton Car Park. Rightly chastised for my tardiness by Garry, we leave his Mini and Nicholas' signature green Land Rover and yomp on up to the Tor.

Energised by the task in hand and chatting nineteen to the dozen, (so many mutual acquaintances) we quickly arrive at the granite out-crop.
For a few moments, the light is intense and I’m reminded of Peter Weir’s 1975 classic, Picnic at Hanging Rock.
After, enveloped in mist and light rain, we wander slowly down.

Go and see Garry’s exhibition, Adore at the Arnolfini. It includes a collaborative work (with Nicholas), 'Crucible' which explores the site of all of Garry’s seen and imagined pictures for the last 32 years. Brilliant and strangely emotional. Until 28th May 2023.

Thanks to Kathleen at the RPS Journal &

Katherine with Oliver and Margot
& Michael with Ethan

**Looking for 5 more subjects**

These portraits are from my forthcoming book, which will be published by The School of Life in the Autumn.

Our culture is obsessed with finding romantic love, and yet about 50% of marriages end prematurely, often with people feeling shame and stigma.

This project aims to understand and normalise something a lot of us find ourselves going through. The portraits (of around 50 people) are accompanied by thoughts and observations in the first person. The testimonies (which will be written by Alain De Botton) will be transcribed from interviews made on the day of each shoot.

As well as the divorced, I’m looking for children who may feel they were affected by their parents' split.

Everyone involved will get free pictures, a copy of the book, and final approval of the text.

Please DM, share, or tag.

**I’m particularly looking for people of colour as it’s important for the book to be representative.**

🙏🙏

Barbara and Jane Hamlin 6/12/2021

Happy to say this image will be one of 103 works in the 164th International Photography Exhibition at the RPS Gallery in Bristol, opening on the 28th of January.

I first met the couple when I shot them for the Guardian WE Magazine.

The article explored the challenges faced when your partner comes out as trans.

Barbara had made a cake so we sat and drank tea in the garden.
It was a couple of hours before I got my camera out. The light got better and better.

They were so sweet in their matching pink sweaters. 

Thanks,  and 

The exhibition is a celebration of image-making and storytelling and explores themes of identity, cultural heritage, sexuality and gender, mental health, and environmental and political issues.

Vanley Burke 12/10/21

I can’t believe it’s been a year since my day with Vanley.

The first thing he noticed were the red laces in my black Grenson shoes. 

He told me with a wary smile that in the days of The National Front, skinheads wore them in their Dr Martens. 

A part of the white supremacist brand.

Always tricky making a portrait of another photographer. Especially one as esteemed as Vanley. 

His ‘Boy With the Flag, 1970’ (swipe to see) is so profoundly human, so infused with hope and dignity, I find it almost emotionally overwhelming to behold.

Before I get my camera out, we have strong coffee in the shed of his allotment.

Located on a piece of land adjacent to Handsworth Park, this oasis in the suburbs of north Birmingham is a patchwork quilt of humanity. Each plot an example of its owner’s quirks.

Hearing him talk, I’m struck by how measured and wise he is.

I think of the ‘Boy With the Flag’ and I wonder what he was like as a child.

A young sapling. 

Now a seasoned oak, he has been a constant presence in this community for over 50 years. His roots go deep.

Some of my shoots are more memorable than others. In the best encounters, you learn something.

From Robert Peston (a commission from the Sunday Times), I learned you can spice up a pair of traditional English shoes with red laces.
What I got from Vanly was simple and profound; You don’t have to travel the world looking for subjects. Photograph what you know and care about and do it with integrity and love.

Thanks to Kathleen at for the commission.

This was shot for the Guardian at the end of last year.

I had to find a location near to his home.

Promoting his entertaining tv series, The Outlaws (set in Bristol) I managed to coax Clifton College into letting me do the pictures within their hallowed walls. 🙏

Although this was the second time we worked together, I still find him an enigma.

Professional, compliant but inscrutable, the pictures are more an examination of how he exists in space than revealing, intimate portraits.

This shy awkwardness might be why he was so chillingly good as Stephen Port, the strangely disassociated but arrogant serial killer who murdered four young men in Barking. (Check out Four Lives on Iplayer. Sheridan Smith is also 👌).

Thanks to Amparo at the Guardian, Sophie Dunsby from the school and Elle Smith for her assistance.🙏🙏🙏

Zelda Cheatle 2/9/2021

This was shot for the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society at her unusual home in East Dulwich.
On a corner with huge windows facing the street, the building looked like it might have originally been a Victorian retail outlet or small pub.
After some initial nervous hesitancy (from both my subjects) Iris, her Spanish Podenco arranged herself artfully on the red Le Corbusier sofa and Zelda was lit by direct but soft autumn light.

Zelda had just won the RPS Award for Outstanding Contribution to Photography 2021

Thanks to and for his assistance.  🙏

Spice Girls 1/10/96

I'm on TV tomorrow, proud to be alongside some wonderful photographers for a series called My Greatest Shot.

I found this playful and joyous photo whilst looking at old negatives for the program. Hard to believe it’s never been published.

Taken on the roof of a building in Bangkok, the cocktail of sudden global attention, jet-lag, heat and humidity made for a giddy atmosphere...

The program airs on Sky Arts at 8.30pm Tuesday 23rd (tomorrow evening). 😊

Divorce. Separation. Splitting Up.
Something 50% of us go through.
I’m looking for anyone with a story to tell.
I will take your portrait (in a way that does not reveal your identity if you prefer) and then ask you a few questions for a book I’m doing with The School of Life.
As with Single Dad, everyone will get a print.

Interested?
Please get in touch or share and tag someone who might be. 🙏🙏 😃