Rhodri Jones (photographer)

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Rhodri Jones is a Welsh documentary photographer based in Bologna, Italy. He has exhibited widely and has published several volumes of photography. His work has been carried by the Panos Pictures photographic agency since 1992. [1]

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Biography

Jones was born in Tregarth, Gwynedd, North Wales. [2] His mother is from Luxembourg, his father is Welsh, so he grew up influenced by three languages; English, Welsh and German. [3]

Since 1989 he has travelled widely, producing images from locations such as China, Albania and Wales. [4] He has produced several volumes of personal work as well as commissioned work. He was described by fellow Welsh born photojournalist, Philip Jones Griffiths as "a Welsh poet with a camera" [5]

Publications

Exhibitions

Notes

  1. The book may be found here at Google Books.
  2. Page about the book Archived 2015-04-16 at archive.today , Seren.
  3. Page about the book, L'Artiere.
  4. "Sign in - Google Accounts".
  5. "Sign in - Google Accounts".

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References

  1. Rhodri Jones, Panos Pictures. Accessed 17 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 David Williamson, "Jones focuses on China's ironies", Western Mail, 20 July 2002; available here at the Free Library. Accessed 18 April 2015.
  3. Jones, Rhodri (2006). Return/Yn Ol. Seren Books. ISBN   1854114190.
  4. Hywel Trewyn, "Rhodri's world is black and white", Liverpool Daily Post, 26 April 2006. Accessed 18 April 2015.
  5. The final sentence of Philip Jones Griffiths introduction to the "Made in China" book ( ISBN   88-7940-174-2) is "This book is a marvellous story told by a Welsh poet with a camera".
  6. "Rhodri Jones". Archived from the original on 2015-04-16.
  7. Scambi ferroviari , Bologna city website, retrieved 16 April 2015.
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  9. "All Change on The Long March Towards Modern China". British Journal of Photography. 29 January 2003.
  10. Motta, Federico. Catalogue. ISBN   88-7179-412-5.
  11. "Made In China". People's Photography. 27 August 2003.
  12. "Cina - west of California?". www.bolzano.net. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
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  14. "Go! Internal Migration in China by Rhodri Jones", Amber Online. Accessed 17 April 2015.
  15. Events listing for the Lighthouse, The Stirrer, 4 December 2008. Accessed 18 April 2015.
  16. "Aberystwyth Arts Centre Annual Report 2008/2009" (PDF).
  17. Exhibition notice for "Land of the Living Past", website of the province of Modena, 26 March 2010. Accessed 18 April 2015.
  18. Parisini, Francesca (10 December 2010). "La Repubblica".
  19. "Il Resto del Carlino". 11 January 2011.
  20. "Rhodri Jones exhibited at the Italian Institute of Culture in Krakow, Poland". Panos Pictures. 9 May 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2015.