Jon Tonks b. 1981
Jon Tonks is a British photographer based in Bath, UK. Born in the West Midlands in 1981, Jon Tonks studied product design before becoming a staff photographer for a local newspaper. He moved to London and undertook a Master's degre in Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at London College of Communication, and it was during his studies that he undertook a trip to Ascension Island, which would be the starting point for the Empire project. Since 2007, Jon has been undertaking commissions and working on a long-term project voyaging to remote British Overseas Territories in the South Atlantic Ocean, the result of which is his first book, Empire, published by Dewi Lewis (2013). Jon was awarded the Magenta Flash Forward award in 2012, and has been shortlisted for the Terry O'Neill Award, Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize and Foto8 Summershow.
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Telling Stories
Picture Post and its Legacy 29 Mar - 10 Jun 2022The exhibition presents some of the key photographers of Picture Post magazine as well as a curated selection of some later British photographers who built on this storytelling or documentary...Read more -
Jon Tonks. Square 9
2 - 21 Mar 2021As Tonks has explained: 'When lucky enough to go on a journey and produce work I feel alive and present, this kind of stimulation is an addictive emotion and one...Read more