Background
Linda Benedict-Jones was born in 1947 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States.
Linda Benedict-Jones was born in 1947 in Beloit, Wisconsin, United States.
She received a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse in 1969, and a candidate for an MS degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also attended the Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in 1972, and the Alliance Française, Paris, in 1975.
She was an instructor at the Creative Photo Lab, MIT, and has been a freelance photographer since 1969. Other work experience includes being a lecturer in photography at the London College of Printing (1977-79) and a teacher of English at both the Technip in Paris (1973-75) and the American Language Institute in Lisbon, Portugal (1972-73).
Benedict-Jones' work was featured in "Arena, Program of the Arts," by the BBC in November 1976, which was later included in the National Film Archives of England. In 1977 she received a grant from the Arts Council of Great Britain.
PUBLICATIONS Anthologies: In-Sights: SelfPortraits By Women, Joyce T. Cohen, ed., 1978; Women by Women, 1978; British Journal of Photography Annual, 1977; Creative Camera International Yearbook, 1977; La Photographie Actuelle en France, 1977 (Editions Contrejour: Paris). Periodicals: British fournal of Photography, May 1978; 35mm Photography, spring 1978; Nueva Lente, Oct 1977; Foto, Mar 1977 (The Netherlands).
