“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” ~Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
“Churchill was arguably the most important man of the 20th Century and one of the reasons I wanted to become a photojournalist. This was Sir Winston’s last visit to his old school, Harrow. For the occasion students added a chorus to the school’s song...“And Churchill’s name shall win acclaim through each new generation."... It brought tears to his eyes. It was his last visit to the school.”
~Harry Benson
I look at all the recent comings and goings of Prime Minister’s in my land of birth with such sadness and bewilderment. And think to myself, where is the new generation of great and inspiring political leaders like Churchill, JFK, RFK, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama? Harry’s touching portrait of Churchill is also a meditation on youth and age and one wonders where all the young kids in the photograph are now. Harry has been a witness to history for over six decades and has experienced and documented many great leaders. He is a great photojournalist and has continued in the tradition of the great ones who came before him. As he says “Wherever I am the one thing I must do - I must tell the truth”
