Name Harry Borden Role Photographer | ||
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Awards World Press Photo Award for Portraits | ||
Education Plymouth College of Art | ||
Photography talk harry borden a life in portraits
Harry Borden (born 1965) is a British portrait photographer based in London. His subjects have included celebrities Robin Williams, Ewan McGregor, Jamie Oliver, Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. Examples of Borden's work are held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London and National Portrait Gallery, Australia.
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- Photography talk harry borden a life in portraits
- Photographer harry borden on bbc4 digital picture of britain
- Early life and family
- Life and work
- References
Photographer harry borden on bbc4 digital picture of britain
Early life and family
Harry Borden is the brother of painters Nicholas Borden and Frances Borden
Life and work
Borden won prizes at the World Press Photo awards in 1997 and 1999, and was a judge in the contest in 2010 and 2011.
In June 2005, Borden had his first solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London. Harry Borden: On Business included 30 portraits of leading business leaders. The NPG currently holds more than 100 examples of Borden’s work in its photographic collection.
In 2014, Borden was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
In 2017 his book "Survivor, A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust" was published by Octopus.[1] The book had been previously short-listed for the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2014.
Borden was born in New York and now lives in London and Devon. He has four children.