As the Guardian’s Arts photographer in the nineties and early noughties, Henrietta Butler photographed an array of pioneering, often iconic writers and directors, actors and opera singers, dancers, painters, musicians, composers and conductors.
The Guardian was Britain's last newspaper to fully ‘go colour’ (in 2002); shortly after, imagery went swiftly digital and press photography changed radically. Working with negatives and smelly chemicals in the darkroom, and rushing to the paper to get the pictures there in time, was all part of the thrill. These portraits come from this final era of black-and-white editorial photography
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