Paul Freestone is a busy freelance photographer who every few years pushes himself modestly into the public eye. The last exhibition I remember was a beautifully shot and socially challenging series of women with shaven heads. Now he has put up new work at the Magic Café, in Magdalen Road, Oxford, where since its opening there have been changing exhibitions of varying quality. This one, by a professional with a passion for the dying art of black and white photography, is well above the standard that can slide past the busy customers' eye as they go in for lunch or coffee.

Though the show is entitled Odds and Sods and Death and Dogs, the last two are the most coherent themes. The dogs are represented in a set of black and white prints of dogs and their owners. These are street documentary works that have been observed and composed by someone who has obviously spent time understanding the subject. Printed in the traditional wet darkroom these pictures have the density and compositional balance reminiscent of Bill Brandt with some of the social comment found in his early work. A drunk sprawled asleep on church steps, with his dog sprawled beside him; an old lady with a lap dog perched in an old wheeled shopping basket; the owner of a pit bull terrier standing with a banner about world domination - these are images that go deeper than slighting connections between dog and owner.

The theme of death also overlaps here, as the inevitability of death is present in several of the images. Death is dealt with more subtly in a large set of colour digital prints of cigarette packets (pictured) that Freestone has found flattened and partly decomposed on the street and photographed in situ. These are oversized powerful images of a product we associate with early death but here themselves broken and useless with the government messages partly indecipherable. Paul Freestone should find the time to come out into the open more often. This exhibition is at the Magic Café until the end of the month.