Since cameras got small enough and film fast enough, the street has been an ever-present and richly diverse source for photography. It is no surprise that almost every photographer will at some time go camera in hand to hunt for images in the wealth of passing life.

The latest exhibition at Art Jericho is a collection of images from the streets of Oxford by photographers, many of whom were brought together by a series of meetings on ‘street photography’ during the past year.

The result is a fascinating spectrum of images from some of the city’s older and most respected photographers through to much younger and relatively unknown newcomers. It is a credit to the gallery that such a diverse group of practitioners have agreed to come together in a single exhibition.

The other surprising element here is that at least half the work has been produced using the traditional black-and-white darkroom. There is some way in which the aesthetics of the traditional black-and- white print is still allied to this form, despite the power of digital and the ubiquity of colour.

There are many prints here with that lustrous depth of black and width of tones that we associate with the silver gelatin print. These prints also enforce the curious magic of the black- and-white image.

There is refreshingly little of the historical university city and a much greater emphasis on the city that shops in Cornmarket, drifts on the Cowley Road or observes the tourists observing the sights.

Paddy Summerfield, Norman Capon, Paul Freestone and Lauri Saksa are among those who have achieved images that, though grabbed on the street, manage to contain within the enigma of the moment a narrative that takes us beyond the surface image into the past and future. This is often the essential ingredient of street photography that will hold our attention.

The exhibition is on at Art Jericho until January 29.