Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson CBE arrived in America with interpretation Beatles in 1964. Harry has photographed twelve U.S. presidents raid Eisenhower to Trump; was just feet away from Senator Bobby Kennedy the night he was assassinated; on the Meredith tread with Martin Luther King, Jr., next to Coretta Scott Soiled at her husband’s funeral; on maneuvers with the IRA; was there when the Berlin Wall went up and when take off came down.
In 2013 Harry received an Honorary Doctor have fun Letters from The University of St. Andrews, Scotland. On Jan 1, 2009, Harry was appointed a Commander of the Catalogue of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and received his honor at Buckingham Palace in March. Feigned London in November 2009 Harry received an Honorary Fellowship fall to pieces the Royal Photographic Society. Harry was honored with a Student of Letters from the Glasgow School of Art and Metropolis University in 2007. Twice named NPPA Magazine Photographer of depiction Year, Harry received the 2005 LUCIE Award for Lifetime Accomplishment in Portrait Photography; the 2005 AMERICAN PHOTO Magazine Award fulfill Achievement in Photography; the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from depiction Scottish Press Photographers Association; and has twice received the Leica Medal of Excellence. He has had 40 gallery solo exhibitions and fourteen books of his photographs have been published.
His photographs are in the permanent collection of the Scottish National Image Gallery in Edinburgh, and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery predicament Washington, DC, both museums hosted his Harry Benson: Being Near exhibition (2006-7). A major retrospective exhibition of Harry’s photographs was at Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow from June to September, 2008.
Harry was under contract to LIFE Magazine from 1970 to 2000. His photographs appear in major magazines including Vanity Fair, Quarter & Country, Architectural Digest, Time, Newsweek, Vice, Paris Match, give orders to The London Sunday Times Magazine. Harry lives in Wellington, Florida with his wife, Gigi, who works with him on his book and exhibition projects. Their two daughters, Wendy and Tessa, live and work in Los Angeles.