PHOTOGRAPHY
CURRENT PROJECTS
Good Food Field Guide
Laura Jones contributed photos and video footage to the "Good Food Field Guide" pilot project including an interview with child and youth workers at a community garden for child-headed households.
Dr. Judith Stamp's pilot project, "Good Food Field Guide" Series, is set in Cala District in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Envisioning "Good Food Forever for All", the project highlights the best food growing practices of local farmers and gardeners. It will benefit others in the area, who wish to embark on growing their own food, or improve their present practices.
The Guides give a positive picture of small-scale African agriculture, and its many benefits - to families in their village communities and to local ecosystems.
War Resisters
Laura Jones
is working with John Phillips and Bennett Jones-Phillips documenting war
resisters. John and Laura arrived in Canada in 1967 with the rush of an
estimated 30 to 50,000 young Americans from the USA to Canada.
Jones and
Phillips focused their documentary interests onto their own community,
the American exiles who lived on Baldwin St. in Toronto from 1967 -1974.
The book
Northern Passage, American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, written
by John Hagen, and published by Harvard University Press documents the
movement to Canada and includes extensive information about Jones and
Phillips.
Today, Laura Jones and John Phillips, are assisting and documenting the next generation of Americans who are currently coming to Canada because of the war in Iraq.
PHOTOGRAPHY BIO
Laura Jones won her first camera when she was about nine years old, guessing how many beans were in a jar – beating her brother’s scientific approach of filling a jar and counting the beans.
She decided at about eleven that she wanted to become a writer and began a journal so that she wouldn’t forget important things – but seemed on later inspection to be a list of what she ate or wanted to eat.
The interest in photography and writing continued and fortunately her areas of interests expanded widely.
At nineteen, after living in West Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., Laura married, John Phillips, and moved to Toronto. Together, they created the Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography, which was a gallery, workshop, and small bookstore.
In 1971, when the University of Toronto continued to refuse to allow women in the darkrooms, Laura Jones opened her darkroom and established Women in Photography, an association of women willing to teach other women. She also established the Women’s Photography Coop, which was a group of active women photographers.
Laura Jones’ photographs have been exhibited across Canada and the U.S. She was represented by the Art Gallery of Ontario’s “Artist With Their Work Program” and participated in the Ontario Art’s Council’s Artists in the Schools Program.
Her upcoming one- woman show at the Sumner Museum in Washington, D.C. in 2008 will mark the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign. Approximately 70 of Laura’s photographs of the Campaign will be displayed.
Jones photographs appear in three children's books, and hundreds of articles and newsletters. Her photographs have been used in dozens of educational and outreach campaigns. Recently, Laura’s photographs and writing appear in Family magazine.
One of her current passions is 3D photography using cameras with 2, 4, or 5 lenses, taking the 2, 4, or 5 simultaneous images with 35mm film, and producing original lenticular prints. The lens is embedded in the photo emulsion. The process requires no glasses or special lenses to view the images in 3D.
She also loves doing lenticular animations. She has used this technique for musicians --- a drummer drumming; for pets – a dog with a wagging tail and for a person doing tai chi. The animation can be framed or carried around in a billfold. The lenticular prints are sturdy and require no equipment to see them animate.
LAURA JONES IS A CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER TO MANY BOOKS INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING:
Ellie
Sells Fish
Women at Work
By Beverley Allinson and Judith Lawrence
D.C. Heath Canada Ltd.
32 photos
Maryon Makes Shapes
Women at Work
By Beverley Allinson and Judith Lawrence
D.C. Heath Canada Ltd.
40 photos
Doctor
Mary's Animals
Women at Work
By Beverley Allinson and Judith Lawrence
D.C. Heath Canada Ltd.
26 photos
If you are interested in hiring Laura to do photography for your book projects, please contact her.