‘These courts seemed bursting with potential for a decisive moment’: David Ingraham’s best phone picture

Can the simple, serendipitous beauty of day-to-day life' really be found in a handball hangout?

There's an old handball court at Venice Beach that David Ingraham - a musician as well as photographer - describes as a quintessentially southern California location". It is, the Young Dubliners drummer says, always busy and wonderfully diverse, packed with people from all over the world, making it a prime street-photography spot".

He doesn't see this particular shot, which he captured back in 2015 on an iPhone 8, as a product of good luck, however. I had an idea in my mind's eye of what I wanted, so I positioned myself accordingly and then observed, waited, shot, repeated," Ingraham says. Taking a quick shot and then moving on rarely results in anything worthwhile. I couldn't have got something like this without doing my homework first, studying the work of the masters of the craft, such as Alex Webb and Henri Cartier-Bresson."