Fall 2008 to Spring 2012
These Grand Places

These images are collected from many different places. It is an immersion into a changing or transitional landscape, a place I an feel a sense of communication. Response is quiet and often slow. I will walk for hours and make no pictures, sometimes I make many, but show none.

For a long time now, I’ve worked in the landscape with a 4x5 camera, often photographing at dusk. You may have seen some of these images here and there through the weskit or on exhibition, but this is the first time there are gathered all together. I’ve selected works from late 2008 until present from carried geographies in Washington, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, California, New Jersey, Indiana, Texas, Missouri and many places in France.

Tomiko Jones was born in Los Angeles, California and currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Her work is linked to the identity of place in social, cultural and geographical terms, and explores transitions in the landscape with particular attention to public lands.  Jones received her Master of Fine Arts in Photography with a Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 2008. She is the recipient of the awards including the 2013 En Foco New Works Fellowship, the National Society for Photographic Education Freestyle Crystal Apple Award for Outstanding Achievement, 4Culture and City Artists.  Most recent projects include Canal, a site-responsive three-channel environment for Scottsdale Public Art, You Get What You Pay For a multimedia collaboration with Chris Dacre, ad the international five-person collaborative The Gretel Project, scheduled for debut in March 2015.  Jones exhibits regularly in the United States and has had solo exhibitions in Tokyo and Mexico City.  She spent three months in residence at Museé Niépce in Chalon-Sur-Saône, France, the duly acclaimed birthplace of photography, and returned to southern France for a project-specific Fellowship at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis.  She taught photography at New Mexico State University and 3D Concepts in Drury University’s Graduate Program.  Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Art and Coordinator of the Photography Program at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

www.tomikojonesphoto.com