On September 8th, 2022, the United Kingdom lost its longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. As the nation absorbed the news, photographer Paul Harrison found himself at the heart of history. “Rumours were circulating throughout the day, so I dropped everything and headed straight to Buckingham Palace with my camera to find concerned crowds, black-clad broadcast journalists and heavy rain,” Paul shared with Bored Panda. “She died later that day and I barely stopped shooting for the next 12 days, leading up to the funeral.”

For Harrison, a London street photographer of five years, the challenge was not just to document the events unfolding before him, but to capture the feeling of those extraordinary days. “I was in real time trying to work out how to document what was potentially the

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