My Year in Photography: Royals, Politics, Breaking News and More…

Benjamin Wareing
10 min readDec 24, 2019

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 new SussexRoyal Instagram account and was first to break the news it had broken a World Record, I photographed the reaction to the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’ first baby in London and Windsor (despite the rain!), I got some amazing shots at Trooping the Colour (some of which I can’t share today but one day will), I photographed a new Prime Minister, new politicians, and a touching event at the National Memorial Arboretum — a military and service charity and location that I’m beyond proud of to support.

But words don’t do them justice, and you’re probably bored already, so below are my top pictures of the year. As ever, I worked tirelessly to capture these, and I thoroughly hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I loved snapping them.

As I graduate from University in early 2020, I desperately hope to do this full time, as the one true job I love the most. Fingers crossed.

Here we go!

Right at the beginning of the year I was in Westminster as the first historic Brexit vote in Parliament was heard. Brexit was delayed, to the delight of thousands of protestors outside the Houses of Parliament.

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