Hywel Jones

Hywel Jones is a British photographer working across portraiture, beauty, and documentary, unified by a distinctive soft, painterly aesthetic and a fascination with light, form and the human condition.
After studying at Plymouth Art College, he moved to London in 1990, spending the nineties photographing celebrities, politicians and public figures for editorial clients from a small basement studio near Hoxton Square. In 2001 he established the acclaimed picture library The Beauty Archive moving to a loft in Shoreditch and shooting its entire collection himself. His commercial work has appeared for clients including Vogue Spain, Vogue Portugal, El País, Apple, Thalgo and Lexus.
Across three decades his personal projects have ranged widely — from quiet fine-art studies of the human figure to longer documentary series confronting more difficult subjects, among them an extended body of work on bullfighting that holds its beauty and its brutality in the same frame. What connects them is a way of seeing: a search for grace, tension and emotion in the image, whatever the subject.
Awards won include, five Association of Photographers Awards, the John Kobal Portrait Award, and an International Photography Award (Los Angeles, 2003) for his b...