‘I think it’s quite magical’: Francesca Jones’s best phone picture

An image of a seven-year-old utterly engrossed in a book is both nostalgic and poignant

On a previous visit to her brother's London flat, Francesca Jones had taken her own reading light. Margot, her almost seven-year-old niece, was quite taken with it, so for her next birthday, Jones gave it to Margot.

Margot had a camp bed in her parents' room while I was staying. That night, she was snuggled up reading to me from her book, Jasmine the Present Fairy, light around her neck. It was such a special moment, so I captured it; I don't think she even noticed me taking it," Jones says. I'd have missed it had I gone off to get my digital camera, or she would have noticed and I wouldn't have captured something so authentic." In editing the image, she enhanced the saturation and lifted the shadows a little, but nothing more.