As I’ve said before, for me the best kind of news photography is down and dirty when the photographer has only seconds to react and has to depend on intelligence, skill,  instinct and sheer luck. Some times it all comes to nothing but it is amazing how often the same photographers come up trumps.

Anyone who has ever waited with the rest of the media pack outside the precincts of a court building hoping to photograph litigants arriving or departing by car knows how difficult it can be.  The chances of shooting clear images are stacked against you; TV lights, strobes, tinted windows, police and security running interference, colleagues/competitors blocking your shot, rain and the struggle to overcome all of these factors without spilling your coffee make good car shots a rare commodity.

But I love ‘em. When they work they can produce gloriously telling, candid images like this set from London photographer Toby Melville of Sir Paul McCartney and estranged wife Heather on their way into court and out again having failed to reach agreement in their acrimonious divorce proceedings.

Studio portraits they are not, maybe not even tack sharp but all the more powerful and evocative for it.