One of the most explosive photography projects of the 1970s was a series shot by Colin Jones for the "London Sunday Times". The pictures record life at the Harambee Project, a hostel for troubled black youth in Holloway, north London, which became known to its residents as The Black House. Appearing for the first time in book form, these images are no less haunting today than they were nearly thirty years ago. In rich duotone, they capture the dignity and fierce beauty of a community shunned by society, and faced with a bleak future. "They were the hardest people I've ever had to photograph," comments Jones on the assignment. "They trusted no one." The intimacy of these images belies that statement, for clearly the inhabitants of The Black House came to trust Jones. Narrated with an illuminating text from acclaimed novelist and writer Mike Phillips, "The Black House" is at once a searing portrait of social unrest and a powerful testament to the camera's eloquence.
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'This volume presents an extraordinary series of pictures taken in the 1970s in a halfway house for vulnerable young people on London's Holloway Road.' Pride, October 2006, p.12'The intimate portraits of the residents of Harambee ... are a remarkable record of a shunned community.'Telegraph Magazine, November 2006'... It is high time we saw more from Jones.''... an important document of a highly significant piece of British social history.''... the kind of photojournalism that marked out the UK's quality newspaper of 40 years ago, but for which there appears to be little room today.'Ag: The International Journal of Photographic Art & Practice, Winter 2007'... An important, powerful and penetrating body of work.'Amateur Photographer, February 2007'... an extraordinary series of photographs.''The moving memoir captures the vital essence of the time, place and London identity.'Black Beauty and Hair, October 2006'... a fascinating insight into black life and culture in 1970s London.'Black & White Photography, Winter 2006'Colin Jones's images are a powerful record of time and place; beyond the images is a remarkable rhetoric about London identity, expressed in the subjects' style and glimpses of the setting.'The Independent Saturday Magazine, December 2006
About the Author
Colin Jones began his career as a photographer with the London Observer but has since worked for many international magazines, including Life, Geo, Nova, and National Geographic. Mike Phillips is a novelist and writer. He is co-author of Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain and author of London Crossings: A Biography of Black Britain.
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