Arsenal photographed by Alex Amorós [all photos Alex Amorós]

FOR a whole season, Highbury-based documentary photographer Alex Amorós took his film camera around the streets, pubs and cafés of N5 and pressed the shutter on what he saw in front of him.

Across Blackstock Road, Gillespie Road, Holloway Road and other Arsenal hotspots, he found a neighbourhood in love with its local football team. The highs and the lows of Arsenal’s historic 2025-2026 season have now been presented as part of his new photo-book Gooners in N5.

Originally from Alicante, in southern Spain, he moved to London in 2004 and has been living in Highbury for the past two years.

“More than focusing on one specific event, I wanted to take photos of fans around Highbury before the games because there is such a brilliant connection to the club,” he said. “Highbury is really the heart of Arsenal, and you can feel it across the area- old stories and that long-standing connection for the community.”

Across the men’s and women’s teams, his book features 100 pages of photographs from the season Arsenal men won the Premier League and the women took home the Champions Cup. But for Mr Amorós, the rainy winter Saturdays were just as important as the parade in “telling the story” of the season through the lens of the match-going fans.

He added: “I’ve been a football fan my whole life and so I understand them as photography subjects. I’m interested in the heritage of football, the philosophy that makes up a fanbase.”

Too much of modern football culture is becoming focused on business and less on community, he added, and the project was born from a desire to centre the identity of the local fanbase within this context.

Although sympathetic to the Gunners, Mr Amorós added that he could not consider himself a fan, as he wasn’t born with “the attachment” of Highbury’s locals. He’s a fan of his local Spanish team Hercules, and also Barcelona.

Mr Amorós has documented everything from football fans to musical events, and has won awards for his work.

The original run of books has “flown off the shelves”, selling out immediately. A second run will be available to pre-order soon on Mr Amorós’s website: https://www.alexamoros.com/