Berlin Panorama by Brian Harris – The Independent
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- East Berlin – 10 November 1989.The death zone between East and West at Eberswalder Strasse, the place where the wall was first breached the night before. Thousands of East Berliners cross to the West on the morning after the wall was breached.Note: Panorama picture made from stitching 3 images together showing 180 degree view from apartment where it is said that a Stasi agent lived in 1989.Who was Brian HarrisBrian Harris had been an editorial, news and current affairs photographer for more than 47 years.Fascinated in his teens by the alchemy of the darkroom in the 1960s Brian started to combine his 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 London’s 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-five. 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 fourteen years at The Independent Brian travelled the world to cover the stories that defined the era.Since going freelance in 1999, Brian had staged several solo exhibitions, notably at Photofusion Photography Centre, and has contributed to exhibitions organised by the British Press Photographers’ Association. In 2006-7 he collaborated with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on Remembered, a major illustrated book of his photographs and series of international touring exhibitions chronicling the CWGC’s work caring for the graves of over 1.7 million Commonwealth war dead.The BBC has made three short documentaries about his working methods and he has debated live on Radio 4’s The Moral Maze: ‘An experience more terrifying than walking through a minefield on the Falkland Islands.’One of the pre-eminent photojournalists of his generation, he died on October 4. He had been diagnosed with cancer, but typically he announced his illness to the world on Facebook and then updated his friends and family regularly with the progress of this terrible disease. A life cut too short too soon.
