They’re candid, they’re spontaneous and they’re full of local colour.

These photographs by award-winning photographer Jerry Webb capture the spirit of Sussex.

Based in Brighton, Jerry took up his camera in 2006 after a 25-year break and was inspired by other obsessive photographers he met through Brighton and Hove Camera Club.

“I rarely plan my pictures,” says Jerry. “I like spontaneity and I like candid pictures, although that’s so much more difficult these days when photographers are often regarded with suspicion.

“I’m happy walking the streets with my camera, taking pictures of anything, although I’m always happier if there are people in the picture.

"Brighton is extremely photogenic with its architecture, its varied culture and people, and its generally liberal attitudes make it relatively easy to take pictures.”

Born in Buckinghamshire, Jerry studied art and graphic design at college and, after his first job as assistant to a studio car photographer, travelled to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to work as a graphic designer.

But whilst there he diced with detention in a country that prohibited photography when, after striking up a friendship with two photographers and a cinematographer, he began taking photographs secretly from under a blanket in the back of a pick-up truck.

Those images, and others from Yemen and Venice, were exhibited in Knightsbridge, London.

Jerry then moved into magazines, capturing pictures of computer gurus including Alan Sugar and Michael Dell for a computer magazine.

He then became a freelance designer for several years, travelling to places as diverse as the Caribbean, East Africa and South America.

It was his wife Elizabeth who kick-started his return to photography.

“I had to buy a decent camera for work,” says Jerry, “and she suggested I took some landscapes during our many walks.” Jerry was inspired by the wartime photojournalists including William Eugene Smith, Briton Don McCullin, the courageous Jewish Holocaust photographer Henryk Ross, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, widely thought of as the father of modern photography.

Jerry is now a member of the Royal Photographic Society and exhibitions of his work have been held in Brighton and Sussex.

To contact Jerry, call 07968 274677, email www.flickr.com/ photos/21703230@N08/.