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The Photojournalist Using His Camera to Level the Score
Art & PhotographyCulture Talks
Over his 60 years in photographic reportage, Neil Libbert has turned his lens to the good, the bad and the unfair, a new exhibition demonstrates
TextEmily Gosling
Over his almost 60-year career photographer Neil Libbert has shot everything from the Brixton Riots to George Best, a young Helen Mirren, the folk working at a DHSS Benefit Office, and children playing on the streets of Harlem in the 1960s.
Neil libbert helen mirren biography
Whatever his subject and whenever it was shot, Libbert’s knack for capturing those tiny moments that tell a thousand stories make each photograph as brilliant and revelatory as the next.
Libbert was born in Salford, and initially studied graphic design at college before leaving to pursue a career as a freelance photographer.
“I had a keen interest in watching and observing people, a witness to events,” he says of why he chose his medium. One of his first features was a series about