Brian Harris grew up in London but now lives near Cambridge in England. He has worked as a Staff Photographer for The Times of London and was appointed Chief Photographer of The Independent newspaper when it launched in 1986.

Brian photographed the end of the civil war in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the aftermath of the Falklands War and the famines in Ethiopia and the Sudan. He has documented every British election over the past 20 years. He spent 18 months in Eastern Europe watching the collapse of communism and has covered four Presidential campaigns in the United States. He reported on the first elections in Nepal and the death of Rajiv Ghandi in India. He has photographed political change in France, Germany and Italy as well as the first stirrings of unrest in Serbia and Kosovo.

Brian has received many awards for his work, including the prestigious "What the Papers Say" Photographer of the Year Award in 1990 for his work in Eastern Europe. He has had several solo exhibitions, notably at the Barbican Arts Centre and the Photofusion gallery, both in London. He has contributed work to collective exhibitions, most recently the highly successful '5000 Days' show on London's South Bank and has made many contributions to exhibitions at the AOP Gallery. His work has been published in many books and he was a contributing photographer for the Council for the Protection of Rural England's 'Legacy' project in the early 1990s.

He has lectured on his personal photographic vision in the UK, Sweden, Spain and Ireland and has written for various magazines on editorial photographic ethics. He was one of four contributing photographers to the BPPA expo at the Lyttleton Theatre in June 2007 and last year helped to mentor a group of mainly Somali teenage youngsters using photography as a common language to discuss their inner selves.

Brian now divides his time between commissioned editorial work, personal projects such as 'Wall', a photographic record of the Atlantic Wall along the European coast, generic stock sold through Alamy and Rex Features and a growing corporate client base where his unobtrusive, fly on the wall documentary style is highly regarded.

He photographed 'Care' for the St Christopher's Hospice charity, 'Whisky' for Chivas in Scotland and the Baltic States for the European People's Party based in Brussels.

The 2012 Olympic bid was aided by Accenture and Brian was commissioned to photograph the last days in the build up to the bid, his quiet, insouciant fly on the wall technique was greatly appreciated by the likes of Lord Coe and his team as they went about finalizing the bid details. He has recently photographed the re-branding of 'Capacity Builders', a Government backed organisation promoting integration within the voluntary sector, again in his quiet non interventionist honest photographic style.

In 2006 Brian spent most of the year traveling around the world on behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to photograph 'Remembered' which was published in May 2007 by Merrell and jointly authored with Julie Summers. The highly praised book and the many touring exhibitions commemorate the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the CWGC.

In February 2006 Brian and Melanie Grant collaborated in an exhibition based around Brian's images of the 'Kiss' on the SS Robin in London's Docklands and at the same time a new representative agency was launched. CRE8 headed up by Mel is a proactive agency and is already being noticed on the London photographic scene.

In 2007 Brian joined a group of like minded photographers and businessmen who set up www.galleryf.com an online gallery site which sells high end quality prints to the public and corporate bodies.

Brian's passion is photography - he is never without a camera, be it the latest digital confection, his well worn Leica or a cheap disposable. The important factor is what the image says, not how it was created, a process from the heart as well as the head.

Making the choice of what images to include on the website and what to leave out was difficult. With more than 30 years of work to consider it was decided, with very few exceptions, to present the most recent work; from the past five years. As someone once said, "You are only as good as your last picture". We hope you enjoy them.