Annual Ripon College, Wisconsin, teacher and students celebration of support for BLACK LIVES MATTER anti-racism movement, March 3, 2022.
Students had just completed reading their essays and poems and sharing their artworks supporting the Black Lives Matter anti-racism movement and political philosophy in front of a prominent, permanent, painted brick wall, which their preceding Ripon College classes had painted in the town of Ripon, Wisconsin, birthplace of the Republican Party. Students are chanting loudly, "BLACK LIVES MATTER!"
I have always said that the late photographer Harold Feinstein was my greatest teacher: I took a class from him in NYC and building on his techniques, rolling our own Tri-X, pushing it to 800, and walking the streets shooting whatever attracted us for less than a penny a shot. I shot B&W for 10 years (1967-77). I studied Color Photography at You Mind's Eye, Falls Church, VA. Since retiring from teaching on the Navajo Nation in 2014, I created Tom Jones Photography website, now 35 galleries, and 17 different jurors have chosen 11 of my color and 9 B&W photographs for fine art photo shows.
Awards *Roy Flukinger selected one of my photographs for BLACK & WHITE (August) 2015 at the Center for Fine Art Photography,
*Drector Hamidah Glasgow chose oneof Color photo selected for Center Forward (September) 2015 by Director Hamidah Glasgow at the same venue.
*Jennifer Schlesinger chose two B&W photos for BLACK, WHITE..., SE Center for Photography, September 2015.
*Blue Mitchell chose a B&W photo for INTIMATE ALCHEMY, Lightbox Gallery, Portland, Oregon (February 2016).
*Aline Smithson chose color photo for MASKS, SE Center (October 2016)
*Kevin Miller chose color photo for HOME, C4FAP (December 2016).
*Del Zogg selected B&W photo for MONOCHROME, SE Center (January 2017).
*Miss Aniela chose B&W photo fo BEYOND THE SELFIE, SE Center (March 2017).
*Arlene Kayafas selected a color photo for ANIMALIA, C4FAP, (April-May 2017).
*Debra Klomp Ching chose a color photo for LIQUID at the New York Center for Photographic Art, Juror's Selection, Jadite Gallery & catalog (April-May 2017).
*Traer Scott chose a B&W photo for GLASS 2017 and the Jadite Gallery at NYC4PA (October 2017).
*Susan Burnstine selected a B&W photo for SHADES OF B&W at the SE Center (February 2018).
*Stephen Perloff chose ONE of my color photos for PATTERNS & SHADOWS
at NYC4PA, First Place, $300, Jadite Gallery & catalog (April 2018).
*Aline Smithson chose a color photo for ONE 2018 at NYC4PA, Honorable Mention, online & catalog (May 2018).
*Crista Dix chose a color photo for HUMANS 2018, NYC4PA, Honorable Mention, online gallery & catalog (September 2018).
*Louise Fedotov-Clements chose a B&W photo for BLACK & WHITE 2018, NYC4PA, Honorable Mention & online & catalog.
*Stephen Perloff selected a color photo for PRIMARY COLORS 2018, NYC4PA, Honorable Mention, Exhibition Online & catalog (April 2019).
*BEYOND EXISTENTIALISM, a book of 52 pages of my black and white photographs, each juxtaposed with one of my published poems,
awarded 3rd place 2017 Fine Art Photography Book by International Photography Awards
