Digital Camera World

Behind the lens

Dafydd Jones has been photographing the great and good at play for five decades, his break being commissioned by Tina Brown, former fêted editor of Tatler magazine. His collection of photographs from the 1980s has appeared in several books, including Oxford: The Last. More recently, he turned his lens to our contemporary obsession with smartphones in his 2019 book . With a new volume of photos having just been published, we sat down with Jones to discover more about his candid photography and what has changed since he attended high society events in the early 1980s.

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