Holy night/Til I hear you sing

Inside the image.

A square cover shows a close-up photographic portrait of a light-skinned man against a nearly black background. His face fills much of the right half of the image, cropped at the top and right edges. He looks directly towards the viewer with pale blue eyes and a serious, intent expression. Light catches his face and tousled, sandy blond hair, while the left side of the image recedes into deep shadow. Fine stubble is visible around his mouth and jaw.

One index finger is held vertically in front of his lips in a gesture of quiet. The hand rises from the lower centre, crossing the dark area and partly overlapping the lower face; the other fingers bend across the bottom of the portrait. He wears a dark jacket over a white shirt, with a small area of pale blue fabric visible at the collar. The portrait is tightly framed, with little setting or background detail and a broad expanse of black negative space to the left.

Two lines of uppercase text sit in the lower-left quadrant, aligned at the left. The larger first line, in narrow condensed white lettering, reads “JOHN OWEN-JONES”. Beneath it, in smaller, slender pale-gold lettering, is “O HOLY NIGHT | TIL I HEAR YOU SING”. The text is set over the black background, clear of the face and hand. The image is photographic, with strong directional lighting and a sharp division between the illuminated portrait and the shadowed field.