New Work by Jon Jones
"Travelling miles, capturing on film places and their emotion is Jon Jones' ultimate destination. The road. moving along where eyes meet the ever-changing new...."

For years Jon returned from his travels photographing the worlds war zones and their terrible conflicts with pictures of the dead and brutalized. A decade later he brings back from his travels material altogether different.

Jon Jones is a freelance photographer based in london. He studied photography at Harrogate College of Art, then at Sheffield College,obtaining a diploma and NCTJ qualifications respectively . In 1987 he joined The Independent before moving on to the French agency Sygma in 1991.

As a photojournalist he has covered conflicts in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Romania, Chechenya, Georgia, Russia, Abkhazia, Ngorno-Karabakh, the Middle East, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Sri Lanka and South Africa. He has worked in more than 30 countries.

His work has been published by the world’s best known magazines: Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, Life, The Sunday Times, The New York Times, Stern, VSD, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Marie-Claire, American Photo, French Photo. He has won numerous international awards including the World Press, POY, Nikon, Fuji European as well as being named Photographer of the Year, Feature Photographer of the Year, and News Photographer of the Year three times in the UK. He has exhibited at Visa pour L'Image and at the United Nations in New York as well as contributing to numerous group shows. He has been featured in American Photo, French Photo, British Journal of Photography, Marie Claire and on various TV and radio shows.

Selected Press:

Three by Twelve, 36 moments in photography, a film by Jan Novak

Assignments 3. Phiadon Press Limited
Sarajevo, A Portrait of the Siege. Warner Books Inc
World Press Photo Catalogue 1956-1992
Century, Phiadon Press
Five Thousand Days, David and Charles
Black Garden, Thomas de Waal. New York University Press
Visa pour L'image.
Marie Claire: "A new generation"
BJP: "5 Photographers to watch"
BJP: "War Photography"
Good Morning TV: "The most dangerous jobs"
American Photo: "Top 50 people in photography"

Collections: The War Museum, Dubrovnik