The Black House, Holloway Road, London 1973 - 1976

This black and white photograph, titled ‘The Black House, Holloway Road, London’ was captured by Colin Jones. What strikes me is the image’s composition – the way Jones has framed the figures. Some are sitting, heads bent over papers, while others stand in conversation, forming small, intimate huddles. What are they reading and writing? There's a sense of community and purpose, a moment captured in time. I start to think about what it must have been like to be Jones, moving among his subjects, observing and documenting their lives with such sensitivity and nuance. There is a cinematic quality, reminding me of the films of the French New Wave—a slice of life, observed and framed with care. There’s a dialogue here, not just within the image itself, but between Jones and his subjects, between the past and the present, and between one artist and another.