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'''Cambridge Jones''' is a successful British celebrity portrait [[photographer]] from Llanidloes in Wales (and more recently a film and television producer.) His subjects, in a series of books and exhibitions, include eight British Prime Ministers ([[Sir Edward Heath]], [[Baroness Thatcher]], [[Sir John Major]], [[Tony Blair]], [[Gordon Brown]], [[David Cameron]], [[Theresa May]] and [[Boris Johnson]]), [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and [[King Charles III]] as well as hundreds of well-known actors and musicians from [[James Bond]] and [[Al Pacino]] to [[Sir Cliff Richard]] and [[Little Richard]] as well as working with [[Vivienne Westwood]] and [[Prince Harry]].

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'''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.<ref name=artdaily>{{cite web | title=Photographs for Charity by Cambridge Jones at Getty Images Gallery in London | website=[[Artdaily]] | url=https://artdaily.cc/news/24039/Photographs-for-Charity-by--Cambridge-Jones-at-Getty-Images-Gallery-in-London | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> He was obsessed with photography from the age of 14, trying to convince famous people to pose for him.<ref name=hartford2009/>


He attended [[Christ Church, Oxford|Christ Church college]] at [[Oxford University]], from 1985<ref name=cco/> to 1988, where he earned a degree in [[politics, philosophy and economics]] (PPE).<ref name=hartford2009/>
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==Early jobs==


Cambridge moved to London, starting work in [[market research]]. He established his own company whose speciality was TV [[focus group]]s. After this he set up two bars in [[Soho]]. After 10 years in London he sold up and moved to a Greek village with his family for a while.<ref name=hartford2009/>
Several of his books and exhibitions have involved musical themes. His first major exhibition, Face The Music (2004), at The Proud Galleries in London, featured pictures of 120 well-known faces who chose and commented on a favourite piece of music. Gallery visitors could listen to each subject's chosen track on headphones as they walked around the exhibition.


==Career==
Face The Music was covered with 7 pages of his portraits in The Observer Newspaper and led to interviews on BBC Breakfast, Sky News, ITV and various radio stations and effectively launched his career. (See link to all media interviews below).
His first exhibition ''Face The Music'' was held in 2004 at The Proud Galleries in London, featured pictures of 100 celebrities who chose and commented on a favourite piece of music which visitors could listen to on a pair of headphones.<ref name=hartford2009/><ref name=obs2004>{{cite news|title=Observer Music Monthly: Sound in vision: Does the Prime Minister's favourite song involve a plea to God for mercy? |publisher=The Observer|date=15 August 2004|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/250497563|id={{ProQuest|250497563}} |url-access=subscription}}</ref>


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 (actor)|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]].<ref name=radabook>{{cite web | title=Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary, by Cambridge Jones [blurb] | website=LensCulture | url=https://www.lensculture.com/books/4795-off-stage-100-portraits-celebrating-the-rada-centenary | access-date=19 May 2023|quote=With a foreword by Lord Attenborough, the book includes an introduction by the Observer writer Miranda Sawyer, as well as interviews with all the actors. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Off stage : 100 portraits celebrating the RADA centenary |author= Jones, Cambridge| author-link= Cambridge Jones | via=[[Internet Archive]] | date=2005 | url=https://archive.org/details/offstage100portr0000jone/mode/2up | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref>
In 2014 he was selected as the '''BBC's Artist in Residence''' and was invited by the BBC to talk on several shows. (In the same year he had work on display in The Mall Galleries in London and Arte Contemporanea in Bologna.)


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 Pullmann]], dressed as their favourite book characters. He also interviewed them.<ref name=story2014>{{cite interview | interviewer-last=MacAlister | interviewer-first=Katherine | title=Character reference - Interview with photographer Cambridge Jones | website=Oxford Mail | date=6 March 2014 |first=Cambridge| last=Jones| url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11057264.character-reference---interview-photographer-cambridge-jones/ | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref><ref name=bbc2014/>
<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/130105002?h=4a281a7862" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/130105002">Cambridge Jones &ndash; Show reel</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/sarahdaw">SARAHDAW</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
==Exhibitions==
His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world including:


In 2007 [[The Prince's Trust]] commissioned a work which was published as ''Inspired By Music'' in 2009, which was sponsored by [[Starbucks]] and on sale in every Starbucks coffee store.<ref name=hartford2009/> It features personal reflections by 36 celebrities as well as four ordinary people helped by The Prince's Trust,<ref name=blurb>{{cite web | last1=Collins | first1=Phil | last2=Charles | first2=Prince | last3=Jones | first3=Cambridge |title= Inspired by Music| website=Blurb | date=26 November 2009 | url=http://www.blurb.com/b/1013358-inspired-by-music | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> about musical lyrics that inspired them. [[Ozzy Osbourne]], [[Take That]] members,<ref name=hartford2009>{{cite web | last=Hartford | first=Maggie | title=Inspired by music | website=[[Oxford Mail]] | date=16 July 2009 | url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4495990.inspired-music/ | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Jones | first=Cambridge | author2=Prince's Trust | title=Inspired by Music | publisher=Shoehorn | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-907149-01-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2I0qQwAACAAJ | access-date=20 May 2023 | page=}}</ref> [[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]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Inspired by Music | website=Damian Lewis | date=1 July 2009 | url=https://www.damian-lewis.com/tag/phil-collins | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> and it contains over 80 photos by Jones.<ref name=blurb/>
'''ITALY – Arte Contemporanea (Bologna)''' ''2014 (The White Stripes portraits)''<ref>http://www.arte.it/calendario-arte/bologna/mostra-jack-white-white-stripes-american-roots-9039</ref>


In 2008 he photographed a number of children for [[Barnardo's]] child adoption agency, in an exhibition called "Home Time", aimed at helping to find homes for hundreds of children waiting for adoption. The exhibition was held at the [[Getty Images Gallery]] in [[London]].<ref name=artdaily/>
'''LONDON – The Mall Galleries ‘Face Time’ with The Art Room''' ''2014 (Bill Nighy)''<ref>https://www.meer.com/en/9611-face-time</ref>


In 2010 he was commissioned by then Mayor of London [[Boris Johnson]] to create an exhibition of celebrity photographs which were intended to motivate Londoners to participate in a new [[climate change]] initiative led by him. Featured in the exhibition were [[Vivienne Westwood]], [[Richard E Grant]], [[Bear Grylls]], [[Rory Bremner]], [[Laura Bailey (model)|Laura Bailey]], [[Michael Sheen]], [[Adrian Lester]], [[Mariella Frostrup]], [[Jane Horrocks]], [[Emma Thompson]], [[Rowan Williams]], and [[Alan Titchmarsh]].<ref>{{cite web | author=London SE1 website team | title=Boris Johnson opens climate change City Hall photo exhibition | website=London SE1 | date=9 February 2010 | url=https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4338 | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref>
'''WASHINGTON DC – British Embassy''' ''(Talking Pictures)''


Other notable commissions include those from [[Nelson Mandela]], and his alma mater [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Portfolios | website=Cambridge Jones Photography | url=http://www.cambridgejones.com/aboutCJ.html | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref><ref name=cco>{{cite journal|url=https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Christ%20Church%20Matter~Issue%2018.pdf| title=Editorial (etc.)| journal=Christ Church Matters|publisher= Oxford University| issue=18|date = 2006|quote= Michaelmas Term 2006... In our Portrait, old member articles have been added to commissioned pieces by Christ Church experts in specific areas and brought alive by fascinating illustrations, including specially commissioned photography by Cambridge Jones (1985), to make a book that we hope you will treasure.}}</ref> Other people photographed by Jones include South African anti-apartheid campaigners [[Bishop Tutu]]<ref>{{cite web | last=Gelder | first=Sarah van | title=Desmond Tutu and the Power of Apology | website=YES! Magazine | date=11 January 2022 | url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2022/01/11/desmond-tutu-power-of-apology | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref> and [[Helen Suzman]].<ref>{{cite web | last=Tran | first=Mark | title=Helen Suzman, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, dies at 91 | website=[[The Guardian]] | date=1 January 2009 | url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/01/southafrica-race | access-date=20 May 2023}}</ref>
'''LONDON - Mayor of London Buildings''' ''(Environmental Portraits for Boris Johnson)''<ref>https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4338#:~:text=The%20Mayor%20of%20London%20Boris,a%20new%20climate%20change%20consultation.</ref>


==Recognition==
'''DOHA, QATAR– Talking Pictures Exhibition'''
His work has been likened to that of famous American portrait photographer [[Annie Leibovitz]].<ref name=prnewswire/><ref name=playbill2010/>


In 2014 he was selected as the [[BBC]]'s artist in residence and was invited by the BBC to talk on several shows.<ref name=bbc2014>{{YouTube |9YbQqqUatXg|BBC Radio 2 1 of 3}} 23 June 2014. "Cambridge Jones as BBC Radio2 Artist In Residence (1 of 3 progs) talking about his latest book & 3 current exhibitions: The Story Museum in Oxford, The Art Room in The Mall Galleries, London, and Jack White exhibition in Bologna, Italy."</ref>
'''OXFORD – 26 Characters at The Story Museum'''<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27945483</ref>


==Exhibitions==
'''LONDON – BAFTA portraits''' ''(Portraits from the RADA Centenary Collection used in BATA Awards)''
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'''NEW YORK – British Consulate (permanent collection)''' ''(from Talking Pictures)''

'''NEW YORK - The Lincoln Center ''' ''(Talking Pictures)''<ref>* WNYC Radio Interview about The Lincoln Center Show: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/soundcheck/segments/94832-wales-is-where-the-heart-is </ref>

'''CARDIFF - The Millennium Centre''' ''(Talking Pictures)''

'''LONDON - Canary Wharf & Strand Gallery''' ''(Talking Pictures)''<ref>https://www.newexhibitions.com/e/36413</ref>

'''LOS ANGELES - LA Muncipal Gallery''' (Talking Pictures)

'''MOSCOW - Red Square State Museum (House of Photography)''' ''(60 portraits by Cambridge Jones)''

'''CHICAGO - Contemporary Art Gallery (NFA)''' ''(Talking Pictures)''

'''LONDON - Saatchi Gallery''' ''(Katherine Jenkins Portrait for Great Ormond Street)''

'''ABERYSTWYTH - Canolfan Y Celfyddydau''' (Talking Pictures)<ref>https://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/exhibitions/cambridge-jones-talking-pictures</ref>

'''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)''

==Notable Commissions==
Notable commissions include The Royal Academy Centenary Portraits, a body of 100 portrait works to celebrate 100 years of [[RADA]] (The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), a book for [[Prince Charles]]’ charity [[The Prince's Trust]] entitled '''''Inspired By Music''''' which was sponsored by Starbucks and on sale in every Starbucks Coffee store, a personal request for a portrait in a letter from [[Nelson Mandela]], an exhibition for the Mayor of London [[Boris Johnson]], a book on his old Oxford college [[Christ Church, Oxford]], a portrait of [[King Charles III]] for Size of Wales, and a body of work for [[Prince Harry]] (see below).

==Charity Support==
Due to his own tough start in life (see below) he has chosen to work with children in many guises. In 2009 he was made an ambassador to [[The Prince's Trust]] and has worked regularly with [[Barnardo's]] and was asked to produce a body of work for [[Prince Harry]] on his work with kids in Lesotho with HIV with his charity [[Sentebale]]. The work was exhibited and introduced by [[Prince Harry]] as a fund raising event.

==Personal Life==

Cambridge Jones' real name is Paul Achilles St Clair Barrow. He was born in Oxford in 1966 to Robin and Hilary Barrow (ne' Mallinson). Dr Robin Barrow was the friend and first lyricist of Andrew Lloyd Weber and went on to become an established philosopher and academic in Canada. Hilary Mallinson worked for the International Times and later went on to run the first black film production company (Soul Production and Creative Enterprise) with her partner Frankie Y (originally one of Malcolm X's Black Panthers.)

Cambridge Jones was brought up on a hill farm in Llanidloes, Wales, by Tuppin & Angela Scrase after his parents marriage failed. He attended Llanidloes High School, St Paul's School and Christ Church College, Oxford University, before training at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ([[RADA]]). He married Ondine Sasha Smerdon in December 1996 and they have two daughters Amber Emanuelle Barrow and Sasha Lola Barrow.


===''Talking Pictures''===
A short career in television (Soldier Soldier, Crime Traveller, The Bill) and film (The Murder of Stephen Lawrence and Subconscious) was soon eclipsed by his photography career after winning an award from [[The_European_(newspaper)]] (The European Photographer of The Year Awards). He also enjoyed a brief hit in the UK with Robson & Jerome when their version of the song Unchained Melody was released from the show they were in at the time (Soldier Soldier) and went into the UK charts at number one.
''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 (British musician)|David Gray]], and [[Bryn Terfel]].<ref name=playbill2010>{{cite web | last=Blank | first=Matthew | title=Photo call: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Sheen, Eddie Izzard, Anthony Hopkins Featured in Cambridge Jones Photo Exhibit in NYC | website=Playbill | date=22 September 2010 | url=https://playbill.com/article/photo-call-jonathan-pryce-michael-sheen-eddie-izzard-anthony-hopkins-featured-in-cambridge-jones-photo-exhibit-in-nyc-com-172007 | access-date=19 May 2023| quote=Cambridge Jones' "Talking Pictures" appears at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts through Nov. 27. The exhibit will launch in early 2011 at the [[Chateau Marmont]] before moving to The [[Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery]] March 3.}}</ref> The exhibition locations included the [[Wales Millennium Centre]] in [[Cardiff]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/galleries/talking-pictures-exhibition/|title=Talking Pictures by Cambridge Jones| website=[[BBC Wales]]}}</ref> [[Canary Wharf]] lobby, London (16 September-1 October 2010);<ref>{{cite web | title=Cambridge Jones: Talking Pictures | website= New Exhibitions | date=1 October 2010 | url=https://www.newexhibitions.com/e/36413 | access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> [[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).<ref name=playbill2010/><ref name=prnewswire>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/celebrity-portraits-from-britains-answer-to-annie-leibovitz-on-exhibit-at-the-los-angeles-municipal-art-gallery-barnsdall-art-park-march-3---april-24-2011-116732134.html|title=Celebrity Portraits From Britain's Answer to Annie Leibovitz on Exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park March 3 - April 24, 2011| first= Cambridge| last=Jones| website=PR Newswire}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Wales is where the heart is - Soundcheck | website=WNYC Studios | date=2010-09-20 | url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/soundcheck/segments/94832-wales-is-where-the-heart-is | access-date=2023-05-17| quote=''Talking Pictures: Portraits'', by Cambridge Jones, opens at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Plaza LeveOLobby at Lincoln Center on Thursday, September 23}}</ref> It was also organised by the [[Welsh Assembly Government]] to show at the [[Embassy of the United Kingdom, Washington, D.C.| British Embassy in Washington, DC]]; in [[Doha]], Qatar; the British Consulate in New York; and at the Contemporary Art Gallery in [[Chicago]].{{cn|date=May 2023}} The exhibition was mounted at Canolfan Y Celfyddydau in Aberystwyth from 2 February 2013 to 13 March 2013 by the Welsh Assembly.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/exhibitions/cambridge-jones-talking-pictures|title=Cambridge Jones: Talking Pictures |website= Aberystwyth Arts Centre}}</ref>


===Other exhibitions===
Most recently he makes a guest appearance in the HBO series [[Succession_(TV_series)]] where he plays himself as a celebrity portrait photographer at Tom & Shiv's wedding (final episode of series one.)
His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world, including:
*London - The Proud Galleries (Face The Music, 2004) <ref name=obs2004/>
*[[Bologna]], Italy – Portraits of [[Jack White]] and [[The White Stripes]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arte.it/calendario-arte/bologna/mostra-jack-white-white-stripes-american-roots-9039|title=Jack White / White Stripes: American Roots|website=Arte}}</ref><ref name=bbc2014/>
*London – The Mall Galleries ‘Face Time’ with The Art Room ''2014 (Bill Nighy)''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meer.com/en/9611-face-time|title=Face Time|date=6 June 2014|website=Meer}}</ref>
*London – Mayor of London Buildings ''(Environmental Portraits for Boris Johnson)''<ref>{{cite web | author=London SE1 website team | title=Boris Johnson opens climate change City Hall photo exhibition | website=London SE1 | date=2010-02-09 | url=https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4338 | access-date=2023-05-17}}</ref>
*Oxford – ''26 Characters at The Story Museum'' (2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27945483|title=Authors dress up as their favourite characters|date=29 June 2014|website= BBC}}</ref><ref name=story2014/><ref name=bbc2014/>
*London – BAFTA portraits ''(Portraits from the RADA Centenary Collection used in BAFTA Awards)''
*Moscow – Red Square State Museum (House of Photography) ''(Royal Power, Politics & Hollywood by Cambridge Jones)''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hauteliving.com/2011/03/fashion-and-style-in-photography-festival-kicks-off-in-moscow/139985/|title=Fashion and Style in Photography Festival Kicks off in Moscow|date=16 March 2011|website=Haute Living}}</ref>
*London – Saatchi Gallery ''(Katherine Jenkins Portrait for Great Ormond Street)'' (Organised by GOSH)
*London – Getty Images Gallery ''(The RADA Centenary Portraits)''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/royal-academy-of-dramatic-art-centenary-portraits|title=Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art Centenary Portraits Photos and Premium High Res Pictures – Getty Images|website=www.gettyimages.co.uk}}</ref>
*Brighton – Persona at the Theatre Royal ''(Persona Portraits)''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fivewaysartists.co.uk/philippa-stanton-64-sandgate|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508113739/fivewaysartists.co.uk/philippa-stanton-64-sandgate|archive-date=2023-05-08|title=PHILIPPA STANTON – 64 SANDGATE}}</ref>
*Nashville – Country Music Hall of Fame ''(Country Couture Exhibition from The Manuel Series)''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thatnashvillesound.blogspot.com/2009/03/country-music-hall-of-fame-readies-new.html|title=That Nashville Sound: Country Music Hall Of Fame Readies New Exhibit|first=That Nashville|last=Sound|date=31 March 2009}}</ref>
*Nashville – Tinney Contemporary Gallery ''(The Image Makers : Manuel & Cambridge)''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/cambridge-jones-i-the-image-makers-i-at-tinney-contemporary/article_479e9658-18b9-57b9-8fc6-49ad7c72b259.html|title=Cambridge Jones' The Image Makers at Tinney Contemporary|first=Emily Bartlett|last=Hines|date=30 October 2008|website=Nashville Scene}}</ref>


==Books==
==Books==
* ''OFFSTAGE'', 2005 ({{ISBN|095468432X}}) with Sir Richard Attenborough and Miranda Sawyyer
* ''Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary'', 2005 ({{ISBN|095468432X}}) with a foreword by Sir [[Richard Attenborough]]<ref name=radabook/>
* ''Christ Church – A Portrait of The House'', 2007 ({{ISBN|1903942462}})
* ''Christ Church – A Portrait of The House'', 2007 ({{ISBN|1903942462}})
* ''Inspired By Music'' (for the Prince's Trust), 2009 ({{ISBN|1907149015}})
* ''Inspired By Music'' (for the Prince's Trust), 2009 ({{ISBN|1907149015}})
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==DVD==
==DVD==
* ''Cambridge Jones Showreel''<ref>[https://vimeo.com/130105002 Cambridge Jones – Show reel]</ref>
* "A Wider Sky" 2005
Collaboration with composer Adrian Munsey & Cambridge Jones using photography & music.
* ''A Wider Sky'' (2005): Collaboration with composer Adrian Munsey & Cambridge Jones using photography & music{{cn|date=May 2023}}


==TV Interviews & Other References and External links==
== References ==
{{reflist}}
* WNYC Radio Interview about '''The Lincoln Center Show''': https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/soundcheck/segments/94832-wales-is-where-the-heart-is
* '''Interview in Welsh for S4C''' with Cambridge Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WO9T3zvpRc
* '''Canada's CNBC Breakfast show interviews Cambridge Jones''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krShA5OGuUM
*'''Talking Pictures''' produced by The Welsh Assembly Government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDzFhkOHSKQ
* '''BBC's Will Gompertz''' interviews Cambridge Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9V8lhwlG1M
* '''Sky News Guest''' Oct 17th: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAL5G2bA6mY
* '''The Times Newspaper''' interview with Cambridge Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5npw1nNF8Kk
* '''Sky News''' Guest on the anniversary of 9/11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4pMLdS2PfM
* '''BBC Radio Interview''' with Arts Correspondence Will Gompertz:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2J2Nv8fE0
* '''BBC Artist in Residence''' interviews 1 of 3 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YbQqqUatXg
* '''BBC Artist in Residence''' interviews 2 of 3 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppt9wkoAp-M
* '''BBC Artist in Residence''' interviews 3 of 3 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YbQqqUatXg
* '''Sky News Reviewing The Papers''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5UQxevAxdo
* '''Sky News on Margaret Thatcher Portrait''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoj7gpQv-Qk
* '''Sue & Giles Programme on Royal Photography''' with Cambridge Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWgH4eToEDk
* '''Voice of Russia interview on House ofPhotography''' Exhibition in Moscow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_Yk3ZbCvlI
* '''Guest on Sky News''' June 12th 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKWlmqkejqg
* '''Russian Media interview''' in Red Square Exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx3s8Vzpe2o
* '''Cambridge Jones on Breakfast News''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlJznZPFCAs
* '''A Wider Sky''' video with the composer Adrian Munsey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA9BTo1XD1k
* '''Guest on Sunrise Show''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yLC5Exp7yg
* '''Kerensa Jennings film for BBC''' with Cambridge Jones Portraits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xy-MKh4mnE
* T'''he Politics Show on BBC''' covers Cambridge Jones's Face The Music exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_EVM5Mm9_Q
* BBC News covers '''The RADA Centenary Portraits Exhibition''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_WGPf0asQo
* '''Emily Maitliss''' introduces THE RADA Portraits Exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVQeiUCqqaw
* '''ITV News interview''' with John Nicholson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1DCYhi0-4
* '''The Culture Show on BBC2''' covers Cambridge Jone's RADA Portraits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEPc8lCqYt4
* '''ITV interview with Cambridge Jones & Andrew Lincoln''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SAipmh05KI
* '''BBC Breakfast interview with Cambridge Jones & Richard Wilson''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4cy3XZFE4
* '''BBC Interview on Lord Lichfield''' with Cambridge Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7UorvdpIgU
* '''The Adam Boulton Show''' on Face The Music with Cambridge Jones as guest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7VxcPAh4NA
* '''ITV Angela Rippon Interview''' on Face The Music with Cambridge Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhESwXa_v2Q
* BBC News covers '''Vivienne Westwood working with Cambridge Jones''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpPXTBVMtQA
* '''Interview on Home Time Exhibition''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLADBgjJxHI
* '''BBC Wales Arts Review Of The Year''' with Cambridge Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHM_2a7jV6E
* '''Sky News Guest''': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKdF1p8JZog
*'''A full collection of interviews''' including BBC, Sky and others: https://www.youtube.com/@EmbargoMedia1/videos


==WEBSITE==
==External links==
*[http://www.cambridgejones.com/ Cambridge Jones' website].
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Cambridge Jones
Born
Oxford, U.K.
EducationChrist Church, Oxford University
OccupationPhotographer
Websitecambridgejones.com

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

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Jones was adopted at the age of two.[1] He was obsessed with photography from the age of 14, trying to convince famous people to pose for him.[2]

He attended Christ Church college at Oxford University, from 1985[3] to 1988, where he earned a degree in politics, philosophy and economics (PPE).[2]

Early jobs

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Cambridge moved to London, starting work in market research. He established his own company whose speciality was TV focus groups. After this he set up two bars in Soho. After 10 years in London he sold up and moved to a Greek village with his family for a while.[2]

Career

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His first exhibition Face The Music was held in 2004 at The Proud Galleries in London, featured pictures of 100 celebrities who chose and commented on a favourite piece of music which visitors could listen to on a pair of headphones.[2][4]

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.[5][6]

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 Pullmann, dressed as their favourite book characters. He also interviewed them.[7][8]

In 2007 The Prince's Trust commissioned a work which was published as Inspired By Music in 2009, which was sponsored by Starbucks and on sale in every Starbucks coffee store.[2] It features personal reflections by 36 celebrities as well as four ordinary people helped by The Prince's Trust,[9] about musical lyrics that inspired them. Ozzy Osbourne, Take That members,[2][10] 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,[11] and it contains over 80 photos by Jones.[9]

In 2008 he photographed a number of children for Barnardo's child adoption agency, in an exhibition called "Home Time", aimed at helping to find homes for hundreds of children waiting for adoption. The exhibition was held at the Getty Images Gallery in London.[1]

In 2010 he was commissioned by then Mayor of London Boris Johnson to create an exhibition of celebrity photographs which were intended to motivate Londoners to participate in a new climate change initiative led by him. Featured in the exhibition were Vivienne Westwood, Richard E Grant, Bear Grylls, Rory Bremner, Laura Bailey, Michael Sheen, Adrian Lester, Mariella Frostrup, Jane Horrocks, Emma Thompson, Rowan Williams, and Alan Titchmarsh.[12]

Other notable commissions include those from Nelson Mandela, and his alma mater Christ Church, Oxford.[13][3] Other people photographed by Jones include South African anti-apartheid campaigners Bishop Tutu[14] and Helen Suzman.[15]

Recognition

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His work has been likened to that of famous American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz.[16][17]

In 2014 he was selected as the BBC's artist in residence and was invited by the BBC to talk on several shows.[8]

Exhibitions

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Talking Pictures

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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.[17] The exhibition locations included the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff;[18] Canary Wharf lobby, London (16 September-1 October 2010);[19] 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).[17][16][20] 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.[citation needed] The exhibition was mounted at Canolfan Y Celfyddydau in Aberystwyth from 2 February 2013 to 13 March 2013 by the Welsh Assembly.[21]

Other exhibitions

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His work has been exhibited in galleries around the world, including:

  • London - The Proud Galleries (Face The Music, 2004) [4]
  • Bologna, Italy – Portraits of Jack White and The White Stripes[22][8]
  • London – The Mall Galleries ‘Face Time’ with The Art Room 2014 (Bill Nighy)[23]
  • London – Mayor of London Buildings (Environmental Portraits for Boris Johnson)[24]
  • Oxford – 26 Characters at The Story Museum (2014)[25][7][8]
  • London – BAFTA portraits (Portraits from the RADA Centenary Collection used in BAFTA Awards)
  • Moscow – Red Square State Museum (House of Photography) (Royal Power, Politics & Hollywood by Cambridge Jones)[26]
  • London – Saatchi Gallery (Katherine Jenkins Portrait for Great Ormond Street) (Organised by GOSH)
  • London – Getty Images Gallery (The RADA Centenary Portraits)[27]
  • Brighton – Persona at the Theatre Royal (Persona Portraits)[28]
  • Nashville – Country Music Hall of Fame (Country Couture Exhibition from The Manuel Series)[29]
  • Nashville – Tinney Contemporary Gallery (The Image Makers : Manuel & Cambridge)[30]

Books

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  • Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary, 2005 (ISBN 095468432X) with a foreword by Sir Richard Attenborough[5]
  • Christ Church – A Portrait of The House, 2007 (ISBN 1903942462)
  • Inspired By Music (for the Prince's Trust), 2009 (ISBN 1907149015)
  • Face The Music Printed by The Proud Gallery as a one-off catalogue
  • 26 Characters (ISBN 978-0-9569918-1-2)
  • Super Power Agency (ISBN 9 781838 256807)
  • Fashion & Style in Photography Moscow House of Photography 2011 (ISBN 978-5-93977-062-0)

DVD

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  • Cambridge Jones Showreel[31]
  • A Wider Sky (2005): Collaboration with composer Adrian Munsey & Cambridge Jones using photography & music[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Photographs for Charity by Cambridge Jones at Getty Images Gallery in London". Artdaily. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Hartford, Maggie (16 July 2009). "Inspired by music". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Editorial (etc.)" (PDF). Christ Church Matters (18). Oxford University. 2006. Michaelmas Term 2006... In our Portrait, old member articles have been added to commissioned pieces by Christ Church experts in specific areas and brought alive by fascinating illustrations, including specially commissioned photography by Cambridge Jones (1985), to make a book that we hope you will treasure.
  4. ^ a b "Observer Music Monthly: Sound in vision: Does the Prime Minister's favourite song involve a plea to God for mercy?". The Observer. 15 August 2004. ProQuest 250497563.
  5. ^ a b "Off Stage: 100 Portraits Celebrating the RADA Centenary, by Cambridge Jones [blurb]". LensCulture. Retrieved 19 May 2023. With a foreword by Lord Attenborough, the book includes an introduction by the Observer writer Miranda Sawyer, as well as interviews with all the actors.
  6. ^ Jones, Cambridge (2005). Off stage : 100 portraits celebrating the RADA centenary. Retrieved 19 May 2023 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ a b Jones, Cambridge (6 March 2014). "Character reference - Interview with photographer Cambridge Jones". Oxford Mail (Interview). Interviewed by MacAlister, Katherine. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  8. ^ a b c d BBC Radio 2 1 of 3 on YouTube 23 June 2014. "Cambridge Jones as BBC Radio2 Artist In Residence (1 of 3 progs) talking about his latest book & 3 current exhibitions: The Story Museum in Oxford, The Art Room in The Mall Galleries, London, and Jack White exhibition in Bologna, Italy."
  9. ^ a b Collins, Phil; Charles, Prince; Jones, Cambridge (26 November 2009). "Inspired by Music". Blurb. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  10. ^ Jones, Cambridge; Prince's Trust (2009). Inspired by Music. Shoehorn. ISBN 978-1-907149-01-6. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  11. ^ "Inspired by Music". Damian Lewis. 1 July 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  12. ^ London SE1 website team (9 February 2010). "Boris Johnson opens climate change City Hall photo exhibition". London SE1. Retrieved 20 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ^ "Portfolios". Cambridge Jones Photography. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  14. ^ Gelder, Sarah van (11 January 2022). "Desmond Tutu and the Power of Apology". YES! Magazine. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  15. ^ Tran, Mark (1 January 2009). "Helen Suzman, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, dies at 91". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  16. ^ a b Jones, Cambridge. "Celebrity Portraits From Britain's Answer to Annie Leibovitz on Exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park March 3 - April 24, 2011". PR Newswire.
  17. ^ a b c Blank, Matthew (22 September 2010). "Photo call: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Sheen, Eddie Izzard, Anthony Hopkins Featured in Cambridge Jones Photo Exhibit in NYC". Playbill. Retrieved 19 May 2023. Cambridge Jones' "Talking Pictures" appears at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts through Nov. 27. The exhibit will launch in early 2011 at the Chateau Marmont before moving to The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery March 3.
  18. ^ "Talking Pictures by Cambridge Jones". BBC Wales.
  19. ^ "Cambridge Jones: Talking Pictures". New Exhibitions. 1 October 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  20. ^ "Wales is where the heart is - Soundcheck". WNYC Studios. 20 September 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2023. Talking Pictures: Portraits, by Cambridge Jones, opens at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Plaza LeveOLobby at Lincoln Center on Thursday, September 23
  21. ^ "Cambridge Jones: Talking Pictures". Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
  22. ^ "Jack White / White Stripes: American Roots". Arte.
  23. ^ "Face Time". Meer. 6 June 2014.
  24. ^ London SE1 website team (9 February 2010). "Boris Johnson opens climate change City Hall photo exhibition". London SE1. Retrieved 17 May 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  25. ^ "Authors dress up as their favourite characters". BBC. 29 June 2014.
  26. ^ "Fashion and Style in Photography Festival Kicks off in Moscow". Haute Living. 16 March 2011.
  27. ^ "Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art Centenary Portraits Photos and Premium High Res Pictures – Getty Images". www.gettyimages.co.uk.
  28. ^ "PHILIPPA STANTON – 64 SANDGATE". Archived from the original on 8 May 2023.
  29. ^ Sound, That Nashville (31 March 2009). "That Nashville Sound: Country Music Hall Of Fame Readies New Exhibit".
  30. ^ Hines, Emily Bartlett (30 October 2008). "Cambridge Jones' The Image Makers at Tinney Contemporary". Nashville Scene.
  31. ^ Cambridge Jones – Show reel
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