The photographer Frank Martin, who has died aged 89, was on the staff of the Guardian from 1964 to 1997, creating an extensive body of work that covered news, arts, fashion, politics and international events.
During his career on the paper he photographed most of his notable contemporaries. These included, among hundreds of others, a young Judi Dench at home and Mark Rylance in rehearsal; the artists Andy Warhol and David Hockney; Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter on the presidential campaign trail in 1976. He captured Fidel Castro and Twiggy; the prime ministers Harold Wilson and Edward Heath; the novelists Joseph Heller and Norman Mailer; the Rolling Stones in an early TV appearance in 1964; and the giant pandas Chia Chia and Ching Ching reunited at London Zoo after an unsuccessful mating trip to Washington.
