• The Spice Girls photographed in Las Vegas on 8 December 1997. A set of five individual portraits. Harry Borden recalls the shoot on 8 December 1997 in Las Vegas: “The ageing diary pages from my Filofax confirm it was my craziest week ever. Monday, I shot the Girls in Las Vegas. Tuesday, I flew to Los Angeles for artist Frank Stella.  On Wednesday, I travelled to the East coast to shoot Joseph Heller in New York and finally a jaunt to Chicago for Barry Manilow. All without an assistant. These portraits were taken in my hotel room, lit with a single tungsten ‘redhead’. I realise now I was influenced by Corinne Day’s grungy portrait of Kate Moss for Vogue June 1993. By this stage the Girl Power Juggernaut was unstoppable, the previous evening I’d watched them win a Billboard Award for best album at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. As usual, I didn’t get long but they were fun and very professional." Available in a choice of physical size options. Please ask for framing options. Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph.  Framing adds 2-3 weeks.
  • The Spice Girls, Bangkok 1996. L to R: Geri Halliwell, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown, and Victoria Adams (later Victoria Beckham) Harry Borden photographed the Spice girls on four occasions and this is his favourite Spice Girls image. Harry explains: "The location for the shoot was a half-built tower block in the centre of Bangkok, chosen because their record company’s offices were on a lower floor of the building. After shooting a number of pictures on the roof, we came down to the office and they sat down, exhausted by the heat. I immediately saw that this scene would make a much better picture than the others I’d taken. So I quickly asked them to hold their positions and shot a few frames, using my Fujifilm 6x7 rangefinder, with Kodak Tri-X film." "There’s a wonderful line going through it, partly because of the way they are touching or linking arms, and the interplay between the two pairs of girls looks very natural. I also like the variation in light; Geri, on the left, is lit like a figure from a Renaissance painting, while Victoria on the other side of the frame is backlit. The fact that Geri is looking slightly distant is also appropriate; she was older and more worldly than the others and went on to leave the group in 1998. The picture only came about because I was alive to the situation and didn’t switch off - and shows that sometimes magic happens when you’re not trying too hard. A print is now in the permanent collection of The National Portrait Gallery." Available in a choice of physical size options. Please ask for framing options.  Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph.  Framing adds 2-3 weeks.
  • The Spice Girls dancing on the roof, Bangkok 1996.  Available in a choice of physical size options. Please ask for framing options.  Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph.  Framing adds 2-3 weeks.
  • The Spice Girls in Las Vegas, 1997.  Available in a choice of physical size options. Please ask for framing options.  Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph.  Framing adds 2-3 weeks.
  • The Spice Girls on the roof, Bangkok 1996.  Available in a choice of physical size options. Please ask for framing options.  Please allow 2-3 weeks between order and delivery for an unframed photograph.  Framing adds 2-3 weeks.

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