A Singular Vision of British Life Born Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones in Wells, Somerset, the man who would become known as Tony Ray-Jones entered a world shaped by the quiet anxieties of postwar Britain. His early years were marked by a sense of displacement, moving from Little Baddow to Hampstead, a movement that mirrored the shifting social landscapes he would later document. The loss of his father, a painter and etcher, when Tony was o…