Bob Jones
ABOUT
Bob Jones is a Berlin-based visual artist. She studied English and French literature in Montpellier and Photography in Berlin and Leipzig. Bob Jones has exhibited her photos and videos internationally, amongst others at OFF Photo Festival in Bratislava, Contact Photo Festival Toronto, at Haus am Kleistpark Berlin, the Darmstadt Days of Photography and Museum für Photographie Braunschweig. Her portfolio centers on portraiture as well as experimental usages of the photographic medium. Since 2018, she is constantly travelling around with her self-built mobile portrait studio. This studio consists of a self-built wooden large-format camera and a tiny darkroom. Bob Jones has lived and worked as an artist in residency in France, Finnland, New Zealand and Poland.
THE CAMERA
In 2016, Bob Jones started a journey with not much more than the photo lens of an old enlarger. Her aim was to build her own large-format camera and finance her travels by portraying the people she’d meet. The Wanderkamera came into being a few months later, when Jones ran into 70-year-old Graham Davis. The former engineer and hobby photographer became as enthused about the large format camera project as she was and was quick to support the project with his available tools and a shed full of unused wood. Three months later, Jones took the first test photos which turned out completely black. Back in Berlin, with the assistance of print master Jochen Rohner, she found the missing pieces to completely blacken out the camera body. She was finally set to put up the camera at a first event. The benefits of the self-built camera became evident quickly: people love the experience of sitting still for an analogue portrait and then watch it being developed. The mobile camera stand has since been a connecting point of likeminded people at events such as festivals, markets and weddings. It is also being used for artistic shootings with a great number of artists, actors, performers and musicians.
What I
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ARTIST COLLABORATIONS
I have collaborated with actors, dancers, designers, musicians, performers, hackers, singers and many other artists.
PUBLIC EVENTS
I have been commissioned for cultural festivities all over Germany and beyond, participated in photography festivals and performed at musical conventions such as Fusion, Garbicz or Bucht der Träumer.
PRIVATE EVENTS
I have attended private events such as weddings, markets and business events. Please contact me for conditions and further details.