A selection from Some Kind of Blue has been included in Common Ground Issue 02 by Borderline Press. Thank you, Melissa Kreider, for curating our cyanotype photographs into this annual publication dedicated to featuring female and non-binary artists.

To purchase a print copy of this issue, please visit Borderline Press.

Home – Land, our new collaborative project, was recently featured by Epiphany Knedler on Lenscratch. We’re honored to be featured among this group of contemporary photographers exploring place within their work.

To read more about Home – Land, please visit Lenscratch.

Danea Males and I are happy to announce that our cyanotype pairing, Pressed Flowers and Alstroemeria, will be included in the nice;01 exhibition at Northern State University.

The exhibition is on view July 1 – September 1. Thank you, Midwest Nice, for jurying our work into the show.

My cyanotype photograph, Pom Daisies, has been juried into Artisphere’s Artists of the Upstate, an annual exhibition featuring artwork by artists living in Upstate South Carolina. The 16th annual exhibition was juried by Kate Ledbetter, Executive Director at Redux Contemporary Art Center. Swing by the Graham Plaza in downtown Greenville to view the exhibition.

Artisphere: Friday, May 12 – Sunday, May 14, 2023

Venue: Graham Plaza, 300 S Main St, Greenville, SC (map)

I look forward to spending time in Savannah, Georgia this spring as one of my cyanotype photographs, Ferns, Alstroemeria, and Daisies, has been curated into the Things That Have Never Been exhibition at Sulfur Studios. Swing by to see all of the selected artwork March 16–May 13, Thursday–Sunday 12–5 pm.

Sulfur Studios: 2301 Bull Street Savannah, GA 31401 (map)

I’m thrilled to share that my photograph 502 W. Victory Dr. has been selected for the Night Lights Denver, an outdoor exhibition that will be digitally projected on to the Daniels and Fisher Clocktower during the Month of Photography Denver.
The projections will be on view March 1–30 from 6–11 pm.

I’m also attending the Society for Photographic Education national conference from March 16–20. See you in Denver!

This month I had the immense honor of attending the South Carolina Art Education Association conference where I led a cyanotype photography workshop that explores the relationship between art and science. Thank you to conference organizers and South Carolina educators for an incredible conference.

Some Kind of Blue is traveling! Come see Danea Males and me at the SlowExposures photography festival in Zebulon, GA.

Thank you to Jerry Atnip for curating our collection of cyanotype photographs into this year's festival.

SlowExposures: September 15-18

Venue: 1828 Coffee Shop,
15982 Barnesville St, Zebulon, GA 30295 (map)

Thank you Carolina Muse for featuring selections from Some Kind of Blue in Volume II, No. II. We're honored to be included in this Carolina–based multimedia literary and arts magazine.

To purchase a print copy of this issue, please visit Carolina Muse.

My photograph Hotel with Factory Stacks, Savannah has been selected for the Artists of the Upstate exhibition presented by Artisphere and the Metropolitan Arts Council. Selected works will be on view at the Courtyard Marriott in downtown Greenville from May 6 – 8 as part of the Artisphere festival. The arts and music festival is free and open to the public.

Artisphere: Friday, May 6 – Sunday, May 8

Juror: Elizabeth Goddard, Executive Director Spartanburg Art Museum

Courtyard by Marriott Greenville downtown (map)
50 W Broad St, Greenville, SC 29601

Thank you Rebecca Jacobs and Medium for the lovely review of Between the Margins by Due South Co-op. The exhibition debuted earlier this month at the Southeast Center for Photography and will remain on view through July.

Be sure to view the full article:
Art Review: Between the Margins.

Greenville friends and beyond­–

I'm excited to announce a curatorial project I've been working on – Between the Margins by Due South Co-op. Join us Friday, March 6 at 6 p.m. for the opening reception, and on March 7 at 11 a.m. for a panel discussion with the artists. All events are free and open to the public.

RSVP here.

Reception: Friday, March 6, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
On view: March 6 – April 25
Artist talk: Saturday, March 7, 11am
Southeast Center for Photography (map)
Curator: Ashley Jones

Thank you to the curators at LoosenArt for including my work in the Suburbs exhibition in Rome. To read Silvia Colombo's write-up on the show or purchase a print, please visit LoosenArt's online gallery.

It's been an exciting spring in the Upstate. This month I've had the immense pleasure of serving as a 2019 Artisphere Awards Juror. This year the festival celebrated its 15th anniversary and featured the work of 135 visual artists. Thank you, to the Artisphere team for a wonderful festival.

I'm also delighted to share that several of my images will be on view for the SEC4P Staff Exhibition.
Thank you, Michael Pannier for including my work.

Thank you to Jeff Rich, Curator for Eyes on the South at The Oxford American Magazine for featuring my series Frogtown to Victory. Please follow this link to view the work.

I'm thrilled to share that two images from the series Frogtown to Victory have been selected for the Shadows exhibition at LoosenArt Mag / Gallery in Rome, Italy. The exhibition will be on view during the month of January.

To view the exhibiting artists please click here.

I have work up again this month at the Southeast Center for Photography for the Member's Exhibition. Swing by the Center to see the group exhibition!

I'm ending 2018 on a high note! The wonderful curators of LoosenArt in Rome, Italy are now selling a selection of my work. Prints can be purchased online through their site.

Curatorial statement:
According to the most common definition, the word ‘essential’ is referred to something “extremely necessary, important, and fundamental”. A person we need to keep in our life, a memory we would like to preserve in our mind, an emotion we would love to feel forever. A constant variable in everyone’s life. Again, the tendency of minimising emotions, situations, people. The conscious decision of separating what is important from what is not.

The group exhibition offers an interpretation of the theme "The Essential", in which to emerge is the ability of each author to grasp aspects of life that contain the most significant values of existence, those individual and / or universal.

I'm thrilled to announce the opening reception for To Do, To Undergo, To Look, a group exhibition I co-curated for the SE Center for Photography. The exhibition includes the work of eight emerging artists from the Upstate of South Carolina. The exhibition opens on Friday, December 7 and an artist discussion will be held on Saturday, December 8 at 11:00 am.

This month I've had the immense pleasure of serving as a juror for the 2019 Artisphere, an annual Fine Arts festival in Greenville, SC. The competition was steep as the juror panel reviewed over 900 submissions.

For more information about Artisphere and related events,
please visit the festival site.

It's been a busy fall here in the southeast with lots of photography festivals and conferences. Recently I attended the SPE southeast regional conference hosted by Penland School of Crafts. This conference is a great opportunity to reconnect with mentors and colleagues. I always leave inspired and ready to get back to the studio.

This fall I'll be interning at the Southeast Center for Photography. Feel free to explore the SEC4P site for information regarding calls for entry, work shops, community meet-ups and more.

Summer isn't over yet! And to celebrate those summer vibes, I'm pleased to share that two images from the Memento series have been included in F-Stop Magazine's group exhibition Land, Sea, Air.

Please click over to the virtual exhibition to see all included images.

More exciting news to share! One of my images was selected by Shawn Bush to be included in the Road Trip exhibition by Lenscratch. Congrats to all the artists selected for this wonderful exhibition!

The Essentials

I'm delighted to have work selected for The Essentials exhibition at LoosenArt Mag / Gallery in Rome, Italy. The exhibition will run the month of November and will include both photographic and mixed media works.

To view the exhibiting artists please click here.

Recently I've teamed up with Aint-Bad to co-curate an exhibition featuring contemporary artist utilizing polaroid film. The exhibition, Instant Gratification, is currently on view at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC.

To read the full exhibition description and learn more about the exhibition visit the Redux site.

To learn more about Aint-Bad check out their website or follow the crew on Instagram.

In celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, I will be co-teaching a one-day Holga and Pinhole Workshop with friend and colleague, Danea Males, at the Southeast Center for Photography.

To register for the workshop or learn more about the various calls for entry hosted by SEC4P please visit their site.

I'm pleased to share that Memento is now on view at South Carolina State University. A closing reception and artist talk will be held on September 7. Thank you to Maggie O'Hara for hosting this exhibition and for your continued support.

I'm honored to be included in the group exhibition, Southern Icons as part of the Slow Exposures festival in Zebulon, Georgia. Thank you to curators: Meryl Truett, Donna Rosser and Rob McDonald for including my work. The exhibition will continue to travel through 2018 – stay tuned for future events.

A selection from the series Frogtown to Vic­to­ry is currently on view at the SCAD Museum of Art as part of the ‘Aint-Bad: Vision to Reality’ multimedia exhibition, which is on view until August 14. To view more about the exhibition please see: SCAD MOA.

To learn more about Aint-Bad check out their website or follow the crew on Instagram.

In other news: I’m setting out for Asia on July 20. Follow me, ajonesfromtheroad, as I reconnect with friends and walk new territory.

A selection of my work is off to Gray Matters Gallery for the Ticka-Arts invitational exhibition. The show will be on view from February 6 – March 19, 2016.

Please visit Ticka-Arts for more information.

Several works from the Frogtown series are currently on view at the Gutstein Gallery as part of the Landfall exhibition. Stop by the gallery space should you be in Savannah. The exhibition will be on view from June 15 - September 5.

A selection from Frogtown to Victory will be exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in the CURRENTS exhibition as part of the PhotoNola Festival. To view all works included in this exhibition please visit the festival calendar.

Please join me at Ashmore Gallery for the opening reception of Frogtwon to Victory on
Friday, May 13 from 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

I'm honored to be included in the Director's Choice Exhibition at Viridian Artists Gallery in NYC.
Please stop by and view the exhibition if you're in the city!