Bio – Richard P Jones

Richard P Jones

I am an audio-visual journalist. My arts practice is centered around contemporary life – how we live today.

Recently I’ve been exploring the “liminal zone” – a space we cannot see with the naked eye; a place where the physical and digital world’s collide.

I work with images, video, soundscape, voice, 3D models & data clouds.

Recent projects have produced long exposure 3D photogrammetric portraits and voice recordings; The Coal Face and Kings of the Underground – a study of the physiognomy (facial details) and memory of Welsh coal miners.  I’ve also experimented with photo-crushing of time lapse sequences; Ghost City.  While “The Crossing” examined the world’s busiest pedestrain crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo, in time lapse and “slow-lapse” with musical composition by Phil Reeve.

The digital installation <TruthDeQay> (composed of points clouds, video  + soundscape) explored the effect of social media algorithms on society during Covid.

The on-going project ‘City Scans’ ,  utilizes high-speed video to capture the movement and rythym of people and objects through time.  I focus on the dynamics of commuters and transportation systems in some of the world’s largest cities; Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and Istanbul, revealing new perspectives on the urban landscape.  The reconstructions are printed onto frameless brushed aluminium.

I collaborate with my partner and wife, Chieko.  We are currently working on the project “I Was There”, which explores a convergence of time and place though a gradation of colour.

Until 2012, Chieko and I were based in Hong Kong and Tokyo. During that time, I carried out photo-journalistic research in China, (see “older work” ) focusing on human rights, animal welfare, and labour conditions – revealing work that received several international awards and commendations. In Japan, I covered developments in robotics and, later, the Tōhoku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster before returning to the UK.

I work on national and international projects.

Exhibitions

On-Going / Coming-up 

  •  “Istanbul Metro #3” (part of the “City Scans” series) Turner House (open call),  Penarth, Wales (UK) 13th Sept- 20th October 2025
  • “Tokyo Summer Storm #3” &  “City Climber #3”  (From City Scans project) at Bath Open Arts Prize exhibition, 44AD Arts Space, 15th – 31st October 2025
  • Gloucester Road #3 (part of the “City Scans” series) at SoHo Open, Great Pulteney Street Gallery, 5th November – 23rd November 2025
  • City Scans images at ING Discerning Eye exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 14th – 23rd November 2025

Past

  •  “City Scans” – NordArt2025 , Budelsdorf, Germany  NordArt2025, Budelsdorf, Germany, June – October 2025
  • “District line #2” (part of the “City Scans” series)  ArtEvol 2025 – Voices from the Undefined,  ground floor, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK) 12th – 19th September 2025
  •  “From China to the Digital Interface” – presentation, Salon der Fotographie, Hamburg, Germany 06 June 2025
  •  Portraits from “Wales: A Home from Home” (with Vision Fountain)  Welsh Senedd, (Welsh Parliament) (UK) , June-July 2025
  • “Behind the Picket lines” (with Vision Fountain) Big Pit National Coal Museum, UK –  Contemporary 3D Portraits / Soundscape of Welsh Miners recalling ’84-’85 year-long strike –  March 2025
  • “Tokyo Summer Storm/untitled” –  Turner House, Penarth, Wales (UK).  Sept-October 2024.
  • “Kings of the Underground” –  A series of 3D portraits of Wales’s last generation of coalminers, Museum of Wales, Swansea (UK).  Nov 2022- March 2023.
  • <Truth DeQay>  (with associated prints by Chieko Jones) at Borderlands Exhibition, Fitzrovia Gallery,  London (UK)  2022 (digital installation with soundscape by Phil+Jai Reeve)
  • <TruthDeQay>  Ffotogallery / Diffusion21,  Cardiff, Wales (UK) Oct 1st – 31st, 2021  (digital installation with soundscape by Phil+Jai Reeve)
  • “The Crossing” (prints and audio-visual installation with music by Phil Reeve), August 28th – 31st, 2020, part of group exhibit, The Pie Factory, Margate (UK)
  • “The Car, The Future, Me”,  Mixed media audio-visual installation, July 2019 – December 2020, British Motor Museum, Warwickshire, England, (UK)  (soundscape composed by Phil Reeve)
  • “The Coal Face”, 3-d portrait installation, Ffotogallery / Diffusion Festival 2019, 4th-April- 30th April 2019, Shift, Capitol Centre, Cardiff, Wales (UK) (soundscape composed by John Rea)
  • “The Coal Face”, 3-d portrait installation (Diffusion Festival 2019), 4th-April- 30th April, The Senedd (Welsh Assembly), Cardiff, Wales, (UK) (soundscape composed by John Rea)
  • “Motor Mouths”, Digital Installation, May 2018, The British Motor Museum, Warwickshire, England, (UK) (soundscape composed by Phil Reeve)
  • “Energy+Notion”, Digital Installation, 2016 – 2017,  Newbridge Memo, Blackwood Miners Institute & Pontardawe Arts Centre, Wales (UK)
  • “The Soul of Money”, Organ Harvesting in The Philippines,  (part of group exhibit) 2016 – DOX Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
  • “Undercover China”  – 2011, FCC, Hong Kong, China (China retrospective)
  • “Mother of the Disappeared” (portrait), 2009, Smithsonian, New York, USA
  • “The Panda Factory”, 2008, FCC, Hong Kong, China

Awards/Commendations

Finalist – National Lottery Awards UK (Outstanding Individual, Heritage) 2023, Winner of 3 x Amnesty  Int. Human Rights Press Awards 2009 – 2011, “Highly Commended” Finalist – UK Press Awards – 2010, Finalist – POYi (Pictures Of the Year International) World Understanding Award 2009, Winner – National Press Photographers Award (USA) 2009,  Outstanding Achievement (1st) International Colour Awards -2007

Publications

Including: Stern (Germany), Focus (Germany), Marian (Germany), Paris Match (France), Le Figaro (France), Le Point (France), L’Express (France), Courier Int (France), New York Times (USA), L.A. Times, Boston Globe, Time (USA), Newsweek (USA), BusinessWeek (USA), The Economist, The Sunday Times (UK), The Guardian (UK), The South China Morning Post Magazine (HK), The Independent Magazine (UK), Marie Claire Magazine (Australia, France, UK, USA. Taiwan, Hong Kong), El mundo, Life Magazine – Observer, Weekend (Guardian)

Covers Including:  Time, Newsweek, Businessweek, The Economist, Courier International, Life Magazine (Observer), El Mundo, Sunday Post Magazine (HK)

Contact

e: richard[at]richardjonesphoto.com