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IndependentFormer chief photographer, Brian Harris, died at the age of 73 after a small battle with cancer.
He joined the paper in 1986 shortly after the launch, first worked as a staff photographer. Many timesBeing a regular and famous face on Fleet Street.
During his 55 -year career, he covered the Civil War (now known as Zimbabwe) in Rhodesia, famine in Ethiopia and Sudan and the major global programs after the Follows War.
He traveled to Eastern Europe for 18 months in 1989, documenting the collapse of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Berlin wall, and covered four presidential campaigns in the United States.
As a result of his work, he won several awards including the 1990 ‘What the Papers’ Photographer of the Year Award, and several singles exhibitions, including Barbikan and Photofuction Gallery.
He has also been the theme of three BBC documentary programs, and has contributed to various BBC radio broadcasting.
In 2006, he spent most years of the year, taking pictures of the ‘Yaad Gaya’ project for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Mr. Harris saved the departed queen Elizabeth around the exhibition at Canada House.
Nick Turpin, on a partner former photographer Independent,
He said, “He shot a vote in the House of Commons across the Temes River at night, he shot France from both rocks in a single shot from Kent. When I was 20 years old and working with him. IndependentI had never seen such shots. He also stood on paper for all our rights.
“He inspired an entire generation of young photographers in the 90s at that time and beyond.”
Brian Harris collection and photographic is organized by Legacy Independent And topfoot.