Sally Soames was a British newspaper photographer.
19 Facts About Sally Soames
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Sally Soames worked for The Observer for a period from 1963, and after a spell as a freelance, for The Sunday Times.
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Sally Soames's father was a businessman, art connoisseur and a member of the Communist Party.
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Sally Soames was educated at King Alfred School in Golders Green, and St Martin's College of Art, both in London.
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Sally Soames won an Evening Standard photography competition, winning five guineas, for her photograph of a youth in Trafalgar Square on New Year's Eve, 1960.
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Sally Soames photographed world leaders, including Menachem Begin and several British prime ministers.
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Sally Soames did not restrict herself to portraits of the prominent, which Soames described as being "photographs of people", but worked in war zones as well.
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In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, the international day of remembrance for the Holocaust, Sally Soames photographs were exhibited at the Jewish Museum on Fifth Avenue and 92nd Street in Manhattan from May to August 1982.
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Sally Soames worked exclusively in black and white, almost always using available natural light.
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Sally Soames refused to work in colour, which she considered a form of "vulgarity", although newspapers had by then switched to colour printing.
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Sally Soames had a strong preference for the Nikon FM2 camera and, in the early 1990s, searched London for examples in the belief it was about to be discontinued.
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Sally Soames's work was used by numerous television and film companies in the UK and the US.
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Sally Soames engaged with her subjects to be able to photograph them as convivially as possible.
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In 2010 Sally Soames nominated as her Best Shot ever the trio showing Rupert Murdoch in 1981 announcing his purchase of Times Newspapers, flanked by his editors Harold Evans and William Rees-Mogg.
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Sally Soames's nieces are Claudia and Sophie Winkleman, respectively a television presenter and actress.
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Sally Soames died on 5 October 2019 aged 82, at her home in North London.
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Sally Soames's portraits are held in two London collections, the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Sally Soames donated her personal collection of photographs and documents to the Scott Trust Foundation.
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Sally Soames' work is held in the following permanent public collections:.