Like contemporaries Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, Hutchinson first made his mark as a pictorialist, using  lighting and darkroom techniques to transform his work into artistic images.
Hutchinson's artistic trajectory paralleled that of contemporaries Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, who also pioneered the pictorialist movement. By employing cutting-edge lighting and darkroom techniques, Hutchinson transformed his photographs into breathtaking works of art.