Sally Soames(1937-2019)
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Newspaper photographer Sally Soames' frank and engaging solo portraits of famous people, including well-known shots of Rudolf Nureyev, Chris Eubank, Iris Murdoch and Hilary Mantel, are now held in galleries and collections around the world. The National Portrait Gallery in London has 17 of her images. The photographer worked for the Guardian, New York Times, Newsweek and the Sunday Times, joining the staff in 1968 and remaining there until 2000. Among her other key portraits are studies of Margaret Thatcher, Seamus Heaney and Tony Blair, the latter taken during the 2001 election campaign. Her arresting image of Andy Warhol was photographed through a pane of glass.