Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson arrived in America with the Beatles in 1964 and decided to stay. He has been a witness to a great many of the major political and social events in modern history. Harry’s subjects range from Sir Winston Churchill  to The Rolling Stones. Harry has photographed every U.S. president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Barack H. Obama; was on the Civil Rights Meredith March with Martin Luther King, Jr.; was there when the Berlin Wall went up and when it came down; and  covered the Gulf War in Saudi Arabia as well as wars in Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands.  

In 2009 Harry was named a Commander of Order of the British Empire (CBE) and received his honor at Buckingham Palace. He was made a 'Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society' that same year. The Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University awarded him a Doctor of Letters in 2008. 

Twice named National Press Photographers Association Magazine Photographer of the Year, Harry received the 2005 LUCIE Award for Lifetime Achievement in Photography; the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Scottish Press Photographers Association; and has twice received the Leica Medal of Excellence. The author of 16 books, his photographs are in the permanent collection of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.