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London’s Michael Hoppen Gallery is paying tribute to its first ever exhibition – a survey of the work of Colin Jones, held in 1992. On show until 3 June, ‘Colin Jones: Retrospective’ appears a full 24 years after the gallery first showcased his talent.

The child of a working-class family turned world-class ballet dancer (via a scholarship with the Royal Ballet), Jones’ passion for photography first appeared in his early 20s; while touring in South Africa in 1960, he bought a Leica, and his nascent interests in the documentative power of the discipline were galvanised.

He subsequently began a professional career in photography, going on to work for The Observer and The Sunday Times, capturing the raw, honest tales behind his subjects of outlaws, dancers and celebrities, and focusing his lens on topics as disparate as post-war British mining communities, Leningrad and mod godfathers The Who.