Exposure
Robert L. Jones is a photojournalist based in San Antonio, Texas. Hundreds of his articles and photographs have been published in numerous consumer, trade and military publications.
To his work, Jones brings a refined eye and an acerbic, succinct, writing style.
“The years I spent at Liberty Engraving, working in color-correction, match-printing and pos/neg film duping for Time-Life magazines in New York was by far the best preparation I could have gotten as a media photographer,” says Jones. “I learned much more working on editorial and ad copy than I did in art school, which is why I dropped out of the latter.”
Black & White Magazine has written of Jones’s photography: “Jones maintains a straight-forward yet precise mode of shooting and processing to produce images of superb technical quality.”
A versatile photographer, Jones works in almost every format: “If you want an architectural shoot, I’ve got a beautiful old Agfa/Ansco 4x5 view camera that takes full advantage of the richness of Fuji’s Velvia color transparency film. If you want gritty, I can go out with my Nikon FM-3A and Tri-X black and white film pushed up to 1600. If you need it next day, I’ve got a Nikon D50 digital SLR. If you want a timeless and hand-crafted portrait, I also shoot with a medium format Rolleiflex SL-66 using Ilford Pan-F fine-grained film. I even do shoots with a professional Polaroid camera or my Pentax 110 SLR. I will work with editors and customers to give them just the kind of look they want for their particular project.”
Jones is the entertainment editor for The New Individualist, a news and commentary magazine published in Washington, D.C. Recent interviews include German film legend Werner Herzog, blogger Debbie Schlussel and Manufacturing Dissent director Debbie Melnyk.
