Chris Harrison was awarded the 16th Bradford Fellowship in Photography at the National Media Museum UK, and his monograph I Belong Jarrow is part of the North of England photography collection held by the Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art. His work has been shown widely including Tate Britain, the Barbican, the Walker Art Gallery, the Imperial War Museum, and the German Historical Museum, while his photographs are included in the collections of the V&A Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the National Media Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Irish Gallery of Photography, and the British Council.