mysterious snapper

If you have spent any amount of time dining around the Kings Cross and Potts Point neighbourhoods over the past few years, chances are you have had your picture taken by this lady, Jocelyn Martin Jones.

Jocelyn was a familiar sight as she trod her well-worn beat most nights, taking photos of diners in restaurants and now she is the subject of a prize-winning photograph in this year's Kings Cross Photography Prize.

Photographer Tamara Voninski says "this particular photograph was taken a split-second before she photographed me".

"Sadly, at the exhibition opening, I learned that the mysterious Kings Cross photographer who epitomised an age of glamour on the streets of the Cross had died recently."

The entries for this year's competition, "Images of the Cross"  are on display at the Mercure Sydney Potts Point Hotel until November 25 and the exhibition coincides with the Kings Cross Festival.  Entry is free.