In reflecting back on his long and varied career, photographer Lou Jones says, “In art, I think that you're pushed and pulled in a direction. And being a black artist, especially a black photographer, a lot of my decisions were based upon survival.”
To insure his survival over the past 50 years, the Boston-based Jones has mastered everything from corporate/industrial and advertising assignments to Olympic sports, photojournalism, and, perhaps most notably, self-assigned long-term projects. Starting from his earliest behind-the-scenes portraits of jazz musicians to a hard-hitting documentary project on death row inmates to his most recent endeavor, the panAFRICAproject, Jones has set himself increasingly ambitious goals to differentiate himself and stay relevant as a visual communicator, while also building a remarkable legacy as an artist.
Photographs © Lou Jones
Above photograph: Traditional and contemporary modes of transport commingle in the form of Asante women passing in the street and riding in an automobile, Kumasi, Ghana.
From Physics to Photography
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones was introduced to photography by a college roommate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he earned dual degrees in physics.
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