sentences:  Although Manning's favorite work is his "evocative urban landscapes," he has also photographed Chuck Berry, Procol Harum, Steppenwolf, Terry Reid, Jimi Hendrix, Dusty Springfield, Lenny Kravitz, and many other musical artists of the rock music genre, as both an independent and as a writer/photographer for New Musical Express.He worked as a photojournalist for NME and was one of the last to photograph his acquaintance, Martin Luther King, Jr., on the day before the assassination.In August 2015, Manning's photography work began showing at art galleries in several cities.