A COURAGEOUS mum who started a radical housing campaign after being made homeless has been snapped for a new collection of photographs of working-class life.

This black and white portrait of Jasmine Stone with her daughter Safia is part of London Life, the collection by Colin O’Brien that is currently Amazon’s bestselling photography book.

Ms Stone became a standard-bearer in the fight for council housing after she and other mothers were evicted from the Focus E15 hostel in Newham.

Refusing the council’s plan to disperse them across the country, the mums occupied a vacant council house on the Carpenter’s Estate near London’s Olympic park.

Mr O’Brien, who has been documenting London life since 1948, photographed Ms Stone shortly after last October’s occupation.

He told the Star that he included the portrait in his new book because “her cause was worth fighting for.”

The veteran photographer added that he also wanted to “prove that I was still capable of taking pictures today as well as in the past.”

A series of portraits of homeless people in east London is among the many other photographs raising the issue of dispossession in modern London.

Starting in Mr O’Brien’s mother’s kitchen, London Life is an honest social record of life in the city through seven decades across almost 300 pages.