Lou Jones

ARTIST STATEMENT For the past few years I have been photographing the continent of Africa country by country. We are using the “universal language” of photography to illustrate contemporary Africa. Western media has for hundreds of years intentionally only told the story of poverty, pestilence & conict with negative images of children with ies on

Reviving the momentum of www.panAFRICAproject.org before COVID19, my team returned recently to Kenya, the fifteenth country in this overly ambitious project. Using the “universal language” of photography, the mission is to counter the negative, neocolonial misconceptions promulgated by western media. We document country by country, modern, contemporary Africa to provide a visual compendium for usage by institutions,

Artist Statement at first I was scaredthe pandemic was supposedly killing old poor black men in East Boston more than anywhere in the USAI was looking for the grim reaper outside my door every morningBut I realized this was not going away soon & would be an amazing point in historyIt was photographers’ “responsibility” to

  Click each photo to view larger Several years ago, I noticed that the media coverage of Africa cast such a negative face on the continent – poverty, pestilence, and conflict — that it resulted in a form of neocolonialism. panAFRICAproject was born out of my need to cast a different light on the subject, using

Click each photo to see a larger view panAFRICAproject Since 2012, Lou Jones Studio has embarked upon an ambitious long-term project to document positive aspects of everyday life across the African continent, an extended photo essay that reveals Africa’s immense beauty and vitality. Much of Western visualization of Africa has focused primarily on poverty, conflict,

Click thumbnails to enlarge Artist’s Statement The twenty-seven inmates I photographed act as a metaphor for our criminal justice system. The Final Exposure project actually started for me at about age 15 when I argued the issues of the death penalty with my father. Six years of my life have been devoted to documenting the