Inspired by continental European newspaper photography
Brian Harris remembers that before The Independent launched in 1986, co-owner Andreas Whittam Smith aspired to a more continental European visual style. Harris told him that in order to make this happen, photographers must be allowed the freedom to be “journalists who take pictures.”
Storyteller: Brian Harris
Date of Story: August 1986
Location of Story: City Road, London, UK
Location: Outside Cambridge, UK
Date: 6 April, 2016