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Colin Jones

Born in London in 1936, Colin Jones’ creative life followed an unorthodox trajectory: ticket out of a working-class existence in the form of a scholarship to dance in the English Royal Ballet. Jones bought his first camera whilst on tour in Japan, running an errand for Dame Margot Fonteyn. He soon became a photographer for The Observer newspaper in 1962, and never looked back.

Colin Jones is one of the most celebrated and prolific photographers of post-war Britain. He has documented facets of social history over the years as diverse as the vanishing industrial working lives of the Northeast (Grafters), delinquent…

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