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Footballer Marcus Rashford, who helped force a
UK government U-turn on children's meal vouchers, and Adwoa
Aboah, a model and mental health campaigner are featured with
the banner "Activism Now, The Faces of Hope" on the front of the
fashion bible.
For Harriman, the first Black male photographer to shoot a UK
Vogue cover, the picture is "really of this moment", reflecting
a summer of protest for social justice following the death of
George Floyd in Minneapolis.
It was Harriman's pictures of London's Black Lives Matter
movements that brought him to the attention of UK Vogue
editor-in-chief Edward Enninful, himself the first Black person
to lead the magazine.
Vogue needed to change in the wake of the protests and the
coronavirus pandemic, Enninful told the BBC, and that is what
led to Harriman's cover for the September issue.
"You couldn't just sell, you know, beautiful clothes and shoes
when the world was going through such a crisis," the editor
said.
Leafing through the magazine in his garden, Harriman said he
felt cover stars Rashford and Aboah represented both hope and
empathy and reflected on his own achievement.
He is the first Black man ever to shoot a Vogue cover after
Nadine Ijewere became the first Black photographer to shoot a
cover when she did the January 2019 issue.
"If you’re looking for a talent in a non-diverse place then it
doesn’t matter because you’ll never see the talent," he said in
an interview.
"So I think you have to cast the net wide. I’m not the only
black photographer - there are thousands, hundreds of thousands,
of amazing black photographers out there."
The September issue traditionally sells more copies as fashions
shift from summer to winter. Last year it was guest-edited by
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and featured influential women on the
front.
(Writing by Sarah Young, additional reporting by Hanna Rantala;
editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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