Lou Jones
Lou Jones is a freelance photographer who has maintained studios in Boston, Massachusetts for many years. The engine that drives his business is commercial & advertising photography for ad agencies, large Fortune 500 companies as well as local & regional entities like Nike, KLM, FedEx, Aetna. He divides his time also with a myriad of editorial publications, foundations & NGOs including Sports Illustrated, Time/Life, National Geographic, Paris Match, Barr Foundation, etc.
Jones has specialized in traveling domestically & internationally to sixty foreign countries & 48 of the 50 USA states on assignment. He has covered thirteen summer & winter Olympic Games.
In addition he has served on the boards of directors of organization such as American Society of Media Photographers, Photographic Resource Center & Griffin Museum of Photography & cofounded the Center for Digital Imaging Arts & taught at many colleges, workshops, festivals & reviews all over the world.
Jones has published over a dozen photography related books: Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row, travel+PHOTOGRAPHY, Speedlights+Speedlites, Saint Petersburg Russia, etc. His photography has been exhibited at Smithsonian Institution, DeCordova Museum, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Gallery Kayafas, Bridge Gallery, Griffin Museum of Photography & is in the permanent collections of Harvard University, Wellesley College, University of Texas, Boston Athenaeum & Boston Public Library.
he has won awards & been recognized by Communication Arts Magazine, Travel Photographer of the Year awards, Building & Construction magazine, Art Directors Club of Boston, United Nations & was named a Nikon “Legend of the Lens”.
But Jones’ entire career has been paralleled by his long-term projects that include Jazz, tall ships, pregnancy, Japan & his current most ambitious effort panAFRICAproject, where he is documenting all 54 countries in Africa.
