Cambridge Jones

Cambridge Jones is a British celebrity portrait photographer from Wales. His subjects, in a series of books and exhibitions, include hundreds of well-known actors and musicians.

Early life and education Jones was adopted at the age of two. He was obsessed with photography from the age of 14, trying to convince famous people to pose for him.

In 2004 he was commissioned to create a body of work published as a book, Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary, to celebrate 100 years of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art). The photographs include John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Sheila Hancock, Edward Woodward, Sir Ian Holm, Robert Lindsay, Joan Collins, Tom Courtenay, Warren Mitchell, Imelda Staunton, June Whitfield, Richard Briers, Jane Horrocks, Glenda Jackson, Juliet Stevenson, Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Branagh, Ioan Gruffud, Susannah York, Timothy Spall, Liza Tarbuck, and Michael Kitchen.

In 2014, for the exhibition 26 Characters at The Story Museum (at the Story Museum in Oxford), Cambridge photographed 26 authors (one for each letter of the alphabet), including Philip Pullman, dressed as their favourite book characters. He also interviewed them. about musical lyrics that inspired them. Ozzy Osbourne, Take That members, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Damian Lewis are among those featured in the book. There is a foreword was written by Prince Charles and an introduction by Phil Collins, and it contains over 80 photos by Jones.

Other notable commissions include those from Nelson Mandela, and his alma mater Christ Church, Oxford. Other people photographed by Jones include South African anti-apartheid campaigners Bishop Tutu and Helen Suzman.

Recognition His work has been likened to that of famous American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz.

Exhibitions

Talking Pictures Talking Pictures toured the world from 2010. It featured famous people of Welsh descent, including Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Rhys, Michael Sheen, Sian Phillips, Eddie Izzard, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Pryce, Terry Jones, Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory, Robert Plant, Owen Sheers, Bonnie Tyler, Shirley Bassey, Emma Griffiths, David Gray, and Bryn Terfel. The exhibition locations included the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff; Canary Wharf lobby, London (16 September-1 October 2010); New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in the Lincoln Center (23 September – 27 November 2010); Chateau Marmont (early 2011); and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (March 2011). It was also organised by the Welsh Assembly Government to show at the British Embassy in Washington, DC; in Doha, Qatar; the British Consulate in New York; and at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Chicago. The exhibition was mounted at Canolfan Y Celfyddydau in Aberystwyth from 2 February 2013 to 13 March 2013 by the Welsh Assembly.

Other exhibitions His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world, including: London - The Proud Galleries (Face The Music, 2004) London – Mayor of London Buildings (Environmental Portraits for Boris Johnson) Oxford – 26 Characters at The Story Museum (2014) London – Saatchi Gallery (Katherine Jenkins Portrait for Great Ormond Street) (Organised by GOSH) London – Getty Images Gallery (The RADA Centenary Portraits) Brighton – Persona at the Theatre Royal (Persona Portraits) Nashville – Country Music Hall of Fame (Country Couture Exhibition from The Manuel Series) Nashville – Tinney Contemporary Gallery (The Image Makers : Manuel & Cambridge)

Books Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary, 2005 with a foreword by Sir Richard Attenborough A Wider Sky (2005): Collaboration with composer Adrian Munsey & Cambridge Jones using photography & music