Jones began his photography career in 1971. His commercial clients have included
IBM,
Major League Baseball,
Federal Express,
Peugeot,
Museum of Fine Arts,
Paris Match,
KLM,
National Geographic,
People Magazine,
Nike,
Price Waterhouse, and
Aetna. He has photographed historic events such as the fall of the
Berlin Wall, the
Million Man March, and twelve successive Olympic Games. In the 1980s he accompanied U.S. congressmen to
Nicaragua,
El Salvador,
Guatemala, and
Honduras on
CODELs (COngressional DELegations) documenting government, military and rebel leaders. In 1990, the
Museum of Afro-American History commissioned Jones to honor women with "Sojourner's Daughters". This project led Aetna to hire Jones to photograph their annual African American History calendars through 2011. Jones was president of the New England chapter of the
American Society of Media Photographers from 1982 to 1986. Hosted by
Kurt Warner, the show featured ordinary people seeking a second chance at their dream career. Jones was the on screen mentor to aspiring sports photographer Tracey Marcum, providing shooting tips and critiques of her photos. Since 2013, Jones has been working with developer Millennium Partners to document the construction of their high-profile developments around Boston. Jones' project, called Ironclad Construction Photography, documents not only the steel and glass rising to form the sixty-story landmark, but also the diverse tradespeople risking their lives high above downtown Boston. Since the completion of Millennium Tower in 2016, Jones has continued to work with Millennium Partners photographing the construction of
Winthrop Center Tower, a 52-story tower going up in the downtown Boston. He is currently working on his panAFRICAproject, photographing contemporary Africa in a documentary style. The more than decade-long project features diverse images from many tribes and nations, documenting the social, economic, and cultural dynamism of modern Africa. Collections from the project have so far been exhibited at the
Boston Arts Academy,
Mount Ida College and
Cape Cod Museum of Art. Jones published his first book in 1997,
Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row. For six years he documented men and women on
death rows in the United States. It was republished in the fall of 2002. For this Jones received the
Ehrmann Award from the
Massachusetts Citizens against the Death Penalty. His second book,
travel+PHOTOGRAPHY: off the charts, was published in 2006. In collaboration with
New England College Press, Jones interviewed and photographed 14 imprisoned writers for his book
Exiled Voices: Portals of Discovery. Jones' newest book,
Speedlights & Speedlites: Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed, was released in May 2009 and is in its second printing. ==Publications==