For about 3 weeks I’ve dealt with almost every symptom linked with COVID-19. It’s been utterly crippling. — In early March I had to catch a packed coach from Manchester at 4am after missing the last train home that night. Next to me was a man that couldn’t stop coughing and, towards the end of the journey, complained down his phone about a high fever. Around four days…

After The Duke and Duchess of Sussex released a shock statement last night, announcing their step-back from senior royal roles, a small section in their heavily detailed new website jumped out to me – the royal couple would begin to involve grassroots news organisations and young journalists more often as…

2019 has been a great year for royal and press photographer Benjamin Wareing. Here are his top 10 royal photographs through the year.

2019 has been one of those really strange years when you sit back and look on everything that has happened. We’ve had two Prime Ministers, a new royal baby, countless breaking news events, Brexit debates as fiery as ever, and plenty of controversies. It marked the year I tracked the…

Users of the Apex Legends subreddit were left shocked and outraged last night as two Respawn developers called gamers “dicks”, suggested they were “ass-hats” and described them as “freeloaders” in unfiltered public comments. Responding to overwhelming criticism to an official apology and step-back from the game’s recent controversial microtransaction changes…

The day when Barack Hussein Obama made his first words as the first black President in United States history, the countries raw and unparalleled history of slavery, colonialism and racism saw its strongest light at the end of the tunnel. A man who, just because of the colour of his…

In August 2018, just a few months after the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle gripped the world, I wrote that the honeymoon period for the Duchess of Sussex was over before it ever began. Almost a year since that sunny wedding in Windsor, things have become…

At around 3.15pm on Tuesday 2 April 2019 the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle) released their official, verified Instagram account. The account, marking an organisational shift from Kensington Palace, quickly caused Instagram to crash with the sheer volume of followers it received in such…

Through the year 2018, I have been fortunate enough to photograph some quite spectacular, special and historic moments across the United Kingdom — as well as experiencing cultural wonders within Europe. Highlights for me span from documenting the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and…