Percival Dunham was Jersey's first photojournalist for a very brief period in 1913-1914. He worked for 'Jersey Illustrated Weekley' and then 'Morning News'. Percival Dunham's candid style of photography was well ahead of his time, long before the word had actually been coined. 
At the time this photograph was taken [early 20th century], photography wasn't a popular practice as it wasn't comfortably affordable or accessible for the general public and of course cameras were in their early stages of development. Producing a well taken photograph was more of a skill then than it is today as there is always an option for automatic adjustments on a camera, making it easy for anyone to take a photo and therefore making everyone a photographer. 
The image is a candid shot, taken just before the subjects would usually figure out what was going on and pose. But perhaps because of the time frame in which this image was taken, cameras weren't ordinary objects to see and therefore this explains the slight confused and blunt looks the two little boys exchange with the camera.  
The quality of the image can be forgiven due to the early stages of developing camera that was used and due to the age of the photograph itself. The image is a little overexposed which is expected on a sunny day. You could say this ruins the quality of the picture or it amplifies the feeling of warmth and sunshine in the scene on which the day this photograph was taken, almost adding an emotional sense when looking at the picture. As capturing reality was a task when a photographer can only produce an image in black and white, perhaps playing with exposure helped to draw out more emotion and feeling from a picture.
One could argue that this photograph is mundane due to the fact that the subjects are quite ordinary, doing ordinary things that little boys do -  no one would think to document this. However, I think 'ordinary' photographs help to unpick things that wouldn't usually be seen when walking past a scenario like this. A photograph freezes time and allows the viewer to take everything in from a scene, landscape or a person. 
Following my ideas of capturing the people that make up St. Helier, I would like to gather photographs that capture candid shots of individuals that help to identify personalities from facial expressions and clothes to proxemics.