Brian V. Jones is a documentary style, fine art photographer. Residing in Sarasota, Florida he is an adjunct professor in the Liberal Arts Program at the Ringling College of Art and Design, works in public radio and maintains a photography practice.
Jones started his career as a freelance journalist after graduating from Howard University. Photography illustrated his stories covering communities in Maryland and Washington, D.C. He freelanced for newspapers, magazines, non-profit organizations, municipalities and special interest groups.
The University of the District of Columbia invited Jones to teach photography, the start of a career-spanning love of teaching. Leaving Washington to pursue graduate studies at the Institute of Design, I.I.T., in Chicago, he earned a master’s degree at the I.D. Jones returned to the D.M.V. where he produced documentary projects funded by grants from a myriad of public and private organizations. He became the supervisor of photography for Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and was an adjunct professor at a number of colleges.
Becoming a professor at Montgomery College in 2000, he served as the photography program coordinator for seventeen years. He is now an MC Professor Emeritus. His many projects at MC included two sabbaticals, documentaries of farmers, Portraits of Life: Holocaust Survivors of Montgomery County, The International Student Project, I Am Montgomery College, and Jazz.
Jones has exhibited extensively. His work is collected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture, University of Maryland/Baltimore County and Colgate University. His work is included in a number of private collections. Jones is now exhibiting in Sarasota, FL .