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Tony Blair was 'impressive'; David Dimbleby was 'charm personified'; Angus Deayton 'is a real music lover'; and Desmond Tutu held a prayer for the photo session. When photographer Cambridge Jones (no, of course that's not his real name) decided he'd like to combine his twin passions of music and photography, he couldn't have anticipated just who would get involved.
He'd spotted a tiny Muji CD player and thought, you could fit that in the back of a frame; some lateral thinking later and he'd come up with Face The Music , a unique series of portraits of the UK's great, good and golden-eared, each accompanied by their favourite piece of music. In the forthcoming exhibition at the Proud Gallery, which is supported by OMM, you can hear their choices on Sony Ericsson Bluetooth hands-free headsets as you view each picture. Whatever the tune, it was meant to be going through the subject's head while Jones was taking their picture, though often this didn't work out: too busy, too distracted. Others took their musical choice so seriously that they nearly pulled: Edward Heath, a...