Assignments LIVE: An evening with Photographer Brian Harris

We are excited to reveal our evening talk with renowned press photographer and founder member of The BPPA Brian Harris. As some of you may know Brian is facing end of life medical care and we are delighted that he has chosen to share the highlights of his career at The Bridewell Theatre on Wednesday 8th October 2025.

Brian Harris has been an editorial, news and current affairs photographer for more than 55 years. Fascinated early on by the alchemy of the darkroom, by his teens in the 1960s he was combining school work with photographing weddings and football matches in his native Essex. A job as a runner at the Fox Photos agency at the age of sixteen set Brian on the path that would shape his life.

In the 1970s Brian worked in the heart of Fleet Street, freelancing for The Sun, The Times, News of the World, the BBC and United Press International, covering everything from IRA bombings to celebrity news, until joining The Times as its youngest ever staff photographer aged twenty-four. When The Independent launched in 1986, Brian became its first staff photographer, playing a key role in forming the renowned Indy style of intelligent editorial photography. In his fifteen years at The Independent Brian travelled the world to cover the stories that defined the era.

We hope you will join us at The Bridewell Theatre, off Fleet Street on the evening of October 8th 2025.

Tickets are available HERE and, after ticketing costs are covered, the funds raised will be donated to an organisation chosen by Brian, this will be announced on the night.

 

Photograph by Brian Harris – The famine in Southern Sudan in 1984.