This photograph was taken while McCullin was on assignment for ‘The Sunday Times Magazine’ and was first published as part of a photo-story entitled ‘War on the Home Front’ in December 1971. It was taken in the Bogside, a Catholic majority neighbourhood in Derry/Londonderry, and shows a young man celebrating a successful rout. He has leapt several inches above the ground in delight, raising his hands in the air as though in demonstration of the event and smiling at another boy who has his back to the viewer. McCullin employs the strong diagonal lines provided by the road markings in the foreground to draw the viewer’s eye to the landscape of rubble and stones behind the boys that is framed by the buildings in the distance, emphasising the desolate aftermath of a violently dramatic event.