Bio – Richard Jones

I am an audio-visual journalist.  I aim to show how people are affected by and effect society + their surroundings.

I am moving from a documentary style to explore the digital margins of documentary journalism.

“Lock-down” project <Truth DeQay> ,  investigates the effect social media algorithms have on society.  <Truth DeQay> explores the central question to <Truth DeQay> ;  “Where do we get our knowledge and how reliable is it?” as the project develops. “Plasticity” of truth and the rise in conspiracy is a subject i will continue to explore.

My on-going project work, Time-slice Transport, captures time with a high speed cameras, initially scanning Londoners as they emerged from the pandemic and moving onto to transport and movement around cities.

I work in  print, photographs, 3D modelling software,  video, recorded voice, environmental sound.

I am based and was brought-up in Wales. I spent twenty years, until 2012,  in Hong Kong and Tokyo working on documentary projects in Asia.

Exhibitions

  • “Kings of the Underground” (with Vision Fountain) – 3D portraits of Welsh coalminers. Digital installations with audio and print. Museum of Wales, Swansea, Nov 2022 – April 2023.
  • <Truth DeQay>  (with associated prints by Chieko Jones) at Borderlands Exhibition, Fitzrovia Gallery, Whitfield Street,  London, April-05-10th,  2022 (digital installation with soundscape by Phil+Jai Reeve)
  • <TruthDeQay>  Diffusion21,  St David2 Cardiff, Wales, 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 at The Pie Factory, Margate
  • “The Car, The Future, Me” (with Vision Fountain)  Mixed media audio-visual installation, July 2019 until December 2020, British Motor Museum, Warwickshire, England  (soundscape composed by Phil Reeve)
  • “The Coal Face”, 3-d portrait installation (Diffusion Festival 2019), 4th-April- 30th April 2019, Shift, Capitol Centre, Cardiff, Wales (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
  • “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 retrospective)
  • “Mother of the Disappeared” (portrait), 2009, Smithsonian, New York, USA
  • “The Panda Factory”, 2008, FCC, Hong Kong

Awards

Including:

  • Three First Prizes, Human Rights Press Awards (Asia), related to China’s One Child Policy,  between 2007 – 2011
  • First Prize, NPPA (National Press Photographers Association, U.S.)  2009 – a series environmental portraits of women trafficked in China.
  • POYi (Picture Of the Year Int.) Nomination, “World Understanding Award” for One Child Policy, China – 2011
  • Highly Commended, Foreign Reporter of the Year, UK Press Awards – 2011
  • Winner, Outsanding Achievement, International Colour Awards, 2009

Publications

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

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

Contact

e: richard[at]richardjonesphoto.com