I photograph Everyday life, un-posed and in ambient light.

MY PHOTOGRAPHS FOR THE METROPOLITAN POLICE TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY OF WOMEN IN UNIFORM ARE ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED IN A NEW BOOK. 

This work was on show at City Hall in London during April and May 2019. Reviewed by the Evening Standard,  ITV Arts and London Live, it featured some striking images of women officers in front line action.

Images from a year that I spent photographing in and around Westminster School have been published in a new book: Ad Te Levavi.

© Christopher Jonas 2019. All Rights Reserved.

Christopher Jonas

Christopher JonasChristopher Jonas is a photographer of the Everyday who lives and works in London.

He concentrates on photographing people, un-posed, in their everyday surroundings. He has two main themes: classic street-style photography, much of it in monochrome, which he applies to his documentary work; and a series set in galleries, museums and cathedrals. Here his impressionistic style brings the buildings to life by emphasising how fulfilment of their purpose revolves around the people in them. 

In all of his work Jonas uses only ambient light. He has a strong knack of anticipating an original street scene, some examples of which are displayed in the galleries on this site.

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Practice Landmaks

“Painting his own Shadow” in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2013


Confidential documentary within the Met’s CT Command 2019/2021

Photographer embedded with 45 Commando
Royal Marines. 2018/2019

 

Photographer of scientists in
the Natural History Museum 2019/2020


Photographer for the centenary of women
in the Metropolitan Police 2018/2019

Creative partner with Adam Chamber
Music Festival, Nelson, New Zealand


Photographer for archive series
of the life and times of clergy and staff
2016/2017

 


Two outsize enlargements at Tate Modern during development. 2013/2015

Photographer of the school’s book:
Ad Te Levavi. A school year in pictures
2017/2018

More background

  • An inaugural exhibition at Goldsmiths in autumn 2013
  • Canary Wharf Group staged Carpe Momentum, a major exhibition of his work in late summer 2014
  • Passing Encounters; from his Arts & Cathedrals series, at the Peltz Gallery, London WC1 in autumn 2015 
  • Transient : Permanent; more from his cathedral series, in Bristol Cathedral in May 2017
  • Prints of his photographs are on display in private houses and diplomatic buildings in London and New York


Before retiring from business, Jonas was chairman of Henderson International Income Trust plc and a senior adviser at Lazard. He spent his earlier career in real estate, including serving as president of the RICS.

He was chairman of the trustees of the Contemporary Art Society from 2014 to 2018. Past pro bono work has included being chairman of Goldsmiths University of London, chairman of the Roedean School governing council and chairman of three major arts restoration programmes: both phases of Tate Modern, and the London Coliseum.

 

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