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“It was while I was interrogating myself on the meaning of photography as art, especially in terms of photojournalism, that I met Colin Jones,” says Frankie Carradona, a London-based artist and visual storyteller. “Things often happen for a reason.” Born in London in 1936, Colin Jones had an unorthodox trajectory into photography. Coming from a working-class home in the East End and also training with the English National Ballet, Jones went on to become a documentary photographer for The Observer, alongside Magnum greats like Don McCullen and Ian Berry. During his career he also shot iconic portraits of British rock band The Who and musicians Mick Jagger and Pete Townsend.
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00:01Photography in those days was not an art form, it was just a thing for recording.
00:08I mean, I photographed just documenting something that you knew would go.
00:21We used to tour all over the country and I'd see the ways of life.
00:46To get to where they've got is not a bed of roses for some of the dancers, especially
00:51for the women.
00:52I think they would have taken me if I'd had one leg.
00:56They were so short of male dancers in those days.
01:03To me, real photography came to an end in Vietnam.
01:09That was the beginning of censorship.
01:11The Americans got wise to it.
01:14The Americans got wise to it.
01:21The Americans got wise to it.
01:27They were logistics from it.
01:27We had to use that against them, and we'd have to make an end.
01:27Now, the who has the astronomers gets back to us, it was after the ass of the half.

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