Jon Holloway

Photography means drawing with light, literally. For jon, it’s an active verb, where the light he finds fuses with space and reacts to time. With internationally acclaimed work spanning two and a half decades, dozens of solo and group exhibitions across the country, esteemed awards and eight published books, jon still searches for new light. It’s a search to connect craft and purpose, to explore the communion of what’s within us and what’s outside, to share the grit of the world we touch and the luminosity of the undeniable universe that holds us.
His projects have taken him across the planet—traversing Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, Cuba, Central America, India from the Thar Desert to the Himalayas, the vast wilderness at the gates of the Arctic, Europe’s storied cities, every corner of his home, the Palmetto State, and especially North America’s indigenous lands in the west. 

When he’s not learning from people in a far off land,
jon teaches the art of light and photography as a tenured professor at Lander University. His humor and energy are legendary on campus and in the heart of Greenwood, where he’s been celebrated as Small Business Person of the Year for his front line efforts in the urban renewal of Uptown. jon has produced...