Harry Borden

Harry Borden (born 1965) is a British portrait photographer based in London. His subjects have included celebrities and politicians. Examples of Borden's work are held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London and National Portrait Gallery, Australia.

Early life and education Borden was born in New York and brought up on a farm in Devon. His father, Charles, was a Jewish American who served in the Marines during World War II, whose parents emigrated to the US from Ukraine and Romania, and his mother was a British Christian. He is the brother of painters Nicholas Borden and Frances Borden.

The first photograph Borden developed was of his father with a drove of pigs on their farm, taken when Harry was thirteen years old.

In 2017 his book Survivor, A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust was published by Octopus. The book had been previously shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2014 and was judged among the 10 best Photography books of 2018 by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. In 2021 his second book Single Dad was published by Hoxton Mini Press.

A photo Borden took of comedian Bob Mortimer was used as the front cover of his 2021 autobiography And Away....

In 2023, Borden and his son Fred set up a YouTube channel in which Harry talks about photographing celebrities and what the process of the photo shoots were like. The channel has over 40,000 subscribers as of December 2025.

Personal life Borden has four children. Borden married his first wife, Jane, with whom he had three of his children, in 1995, but their relationship ended with divorce in 2009; Borden stated that initially, after the divorce he was "absolutely horrendous, completely full of shame, really knocked off my path" but they have since reconciled and have formed a friendship.

Awards 1997: World Press Photo awards 1999: World Press Photo awards 1998: John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London 2000: John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London 2014: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society 2018: Environmental Bursary, 2018 Over 30 Recipient, Royal Photographic Society, Bath