After more than two decades perfecting the craft of commercial photography: advertising, annual reports, editorial, collateral, with clients as diverse as Nike, Major League Baseball, Peugeot, People Magazine, Mobil & KLM Airlines, Lou Jones Studio continues to aggressively pursue a Fortune 500 client base with Aetna, Federal Express, etc.

But a lifelong passion for photojournalism & social documentary has increasingly attracted institutions & organizations like Amnesty International, Massachusetts Association for the Blind & twenty two years of Olympic sports coverage.

Lou Jones has exhibited his eclectic fine art imagery in multiple colleges & schools such as Harvard, Phillips Exeter Academy, Texas Tech University & Middle Tennessee State University, with major shows & inclusion in collections at Smithsonian Institution, Decordova Museum, Gallery Saintonge, Center for Fine Art Photography.

He has completed assignments in 48 of the 50 USA states, six of the seven continents, over forty five separate countries of the world, photographing royalty & the third world, the sacred & profane & has his work represented by Lonely Planet & Zuma Press.

Over the years being influenced by everyone from Eisenstadt to Eisenstein, Gordon Parks to Nam June Paik, from bebop to hip hop, Jones Studio & his staff are infinitely experienced in handling huge budget productions all over the world which allows him to give equal attention to the detail necessary for the smallest nonprofit, grassroots organizations.

Lou Jones is past president of the New England chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers & was a long time member of the ASMP National Board of Directors. He is one of the charter members of the Advertising Photographers of America. Jones is on the board of directors of the Photographic Resource Center in Boston & the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts. He was included in the premier edition of Who's Who in Advertising. Jones is considered by Nikon as one of its "Legends Behind the Lens" & has been featured in the company's advertising & website nikonnet.com.

Lou Jones' images have been exhibited in galleries throughout the world, such as, the Smithsonian & Corcoran Galleries in Washington, DC, Polaroid Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts, Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts & Feuerwagner in Austria. He has photographs in the collections of such institutions as the Fogg Museum (Harvard), Wellesley College, Middle Tennessee State University & University of Texas. In 2000 the International Photographic Council (United Nations) presented him with their highest award & the Boston Photography Collaborative gave him their CONTACT award.

In 1997, Jones published his first book, Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row, which chronicled his six-year odyssey documenting men & women on death rows in the USA & 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 and is now in its second printing. In collaboration with New England College Press, Jones interviewed and photographed 14 imprisoned writers for his third book Exiled Voices: Portals of Discovery. Jones’s newest book, titled Speedlights & Speedlites, was released this spring.

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