Infamous today for its mafia-like Camorra clan, Naples also preserves a mythical status as the Greek city dedicated to the Siren Parthenope.

That character clearly seduced Johnnie Shand Kydd, who devoted eight years to photographing Naples’ people, buildings and customs. The result is no travelogue but a personal, poetic exploration of its dark religious corners, bizarre customs in the transvestite community, everyday scenes including boys playing football using a goal painted on a church wall, a woman leaning on the balcony, smoking, and three posed Cadets outside Cade Gambrinus.

Throughout the exhibition, Shand Kydd’s cinematographic eye is at work: Three boys on Mappatella Beach and Father, daughter and dog (on a Vespa scooter) could all come straight from a Sixties Visconti film. His use of a Rolleiflex camera and black-and-white film endows the photographs with a timelessness and, for the paganistic-Catholic rituals of Easter, a mysterious tension.

He avoids sentimentality and constantly finds humour, is detached while being seduced. And the results are old-fashioned and without tricks, and possess a maturity lacking in the portraits which made his name, of YBAs in the Nineties.

Until September 12. 020 7704 9522, estorickcollection.com