I stumbled upon Harry Borden’s youtube channel last year. He is a commercial portrait photographer who has photographed many notable people.

I just wanted to reference this channel tonight for those of you whom are interested in portrait photography, or perhaps just have an interest in the last twenty years or so of the UK’s pop / political / celebrity history.

Whatever your views on Margaret Thatcher are, perhaps put them to one side. Just listen to Harry talk about how he made the portrait of her, and his experiences. All of his other videos are very much worth watching as well. He’s photographed pop icons from Bjork to political leaders such as Thatcher.