Mick Hartley

Tony Ray-Jones died in 1972 from leukaemia, aged only 30, but in his short career he managed to establish his own unique style of street photography, adapting what he'd learned in New York to the very different culture of late Sixties England. He had an eye for capturing the quirks and eccentricities of the English, and influenced a number of later British photographers – most obviously, Martin Parr.

A Day at Richmond Park, 1967

Beauty Contest, Scarborough, 1968

Blackpool, 1968

Bacup Coconut Dancers, 1968

Blackpool, 1968

Bournemouth, 1969

Brick Lane Market, 1966

Brighton beach, 1966

Chatham May Queen Festival, 1968

Derby Day, Epsom, 1967

Dickens Festival, Broadstairs, 1967

Dickens Festival, Broadstairs, 1967

Glyndebourne, 1967

Elderly woman eating pie, seated in a pier shelter next to a stuffed bear, 1969

Durham Miners Gala, 1969

Eastbourne Carnival

Morecambe

Ramsgate, 1968

Trooping the colour, London, 1967

Wormwood Scrubs Fair, 1967

Worthing

[Photos: Tony Ray-Jones © The National Media Museum, Bradford]