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sports+PHOTOGRAPHYAugust 28 - September 1, 2006 Lou Jones 
In the world of photography sports has always been a unique specialty. Besides requiring a keen eye, acute reflexes & Herculean stamina, sports photography demands a singular tenacity. In addition to being a wonderful pursuit in its own right, i.e. shooting for magazines & newspapers, it has permeated into all aspects of society & is especially applicable as a universal metaphor in business, fine art, corporate & advertising. The workshop is designed to address both assignments & stock usages: documenting sporting events for clients & creating your own productions. In order to stay ahead of the curve we will investigate extreme sports as well as leisure activities. Lighting techniques, both available & artificial, will be emphasized. Equipment will be reviewed because of the special requirements in lenses & motor drives. We will also cover how to research & engineer sporting events for maximum access & peak action. Photography & sports are perfect partners. Their union allows us to record the ultimate human athletic achievements & introduce them to a rapt audience, which simulates the closest thing to participation. In this workshop we will take up the challenge of developing all the imagination & skills to capture the energy, heroics & power. Biography
Jones' assignments have taken him often to Europe, South America, Africa, the Far East & 47 of 50 States. He has been on location at NASA, Boeing, Universal Studios, British Telecom, Mitsubishi & Saab. Raised in Washington, DC, Jones graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with degrees in Physics. But soon after embarked on a career that would have him taking pictures of headhunters in Borneo & guerrillas in Central America, flying upside down with aerobatic pilots, skulking around opium dens in Singapore, sailing on ancient tall ships & gigantic aircraft carriers & being incarcerated in more foreign jails than can be remembered. He has also photographed twelve successive Olympic Games. He is equally well known for his moving social commentaries. During the 1980s much time was spent on CODELs (COngressional DELegations) documenting government, military & rebel leaders. The end of the decade had him witnessing Perestroika & the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1990, the Museum of Afro-American History commissioned Jones to honor women with "Sojourner's Daughters," an exhibition highly recognized by the community. This project led Aetna to hire Jones to photograph their annual calendars through 2006. Lou Jones is past president of the New England chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers and 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. Recently he was made codirector of photography at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts in Waltham, Massachusetts. He was included in the premier edition of Who's Who in Advertising. 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. Jones is considered by Nikon as one of its "Legends Behind the Lens" & has been featured in the company's advertising & website nikonnet.com. 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 comes out in 2006. Lou Jones's Web site address is www.fotojones.com. Tuition $1,000
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