Jones was born and raised in Washington, District of Columbia His father, Leon Jones, worked for the United States Postal Service in information services. His mother, Landonia Jones, worked for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Jones graduated from Gonzaga High School and received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After working for a summer with National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a rocket scientist, he attended Rensselae pursuing a graduate degree in Physics.
He specializes in advertising and corporate photography. His career ranges from photojournalism covering Central America warfare and humanitarian causes, to sports photography documenting 12 consecutive Olympics, and to jazz portraits including Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, and Charles Mingus. In 1945. area. Jones began his photography career in 1971.
His commercial clients have included International Business Machines Corporation, Major League Baseball, Federal Express, Peugeot, Museum of Fine Arts, Paris Match, KLM, National Geographic, People Magazine, Nike, Price Waterhouse, and Aetna.
In the 1980s he accompanied United States. congressmen to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras on CODELs (COngressional DELegations) documenting government, military and rebel leaders. In 1990, the Museum of Afro-American History commissioned Jones to honor women with "Sojourner"s Daughters".
This project led Aetna to hire Jones to photograph their annual African American History calendars through 2011. Jones was president of the New England chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers from 1982-1986.
Jones" images have been exhibited in galleries such as the Smithsonian.
& Corcoran Galleries in Washington, District of Columbia, Polaroid Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts, Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York City, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Feuerwagner in Austria. His photographs are in the collections of such institutions as the Fogg Museum (Harvard), Wellesley College, Middle Tennessee State University, and University of Texas.
