Leaning out of my home office window on an overcast Saturday afternoon. (Leica R8, 60 mm f/2.8 Macro-Elmarit, Ilford Delta 400 Professional, Kodak D76.)
I’ve included this photograph of my son in the Portrait gallery of this website.
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David Bruce Jones (1942–2024) /
I made this portrait of my father in my parents’ home in Gaborone, Botswana, in late 2010. He was 68 at the time. I re-discovered the photograph soon after I began the long-overdue process of reviewing the 15-year archive of my negatives. The white balance was impossible to correct as the portrait was made indoors under a mixture of incandescent and fluorescent lighting using film that was designed for daylight. Even though the colours are irredeemably unnatural, I am very pleased with how the picture turned out—and to have found it at all.
I have added this photograph to a series called Candid, which is published as a gallery on this website. The collection contains colour shots of my family, friends, and acquaintances. You may also be interested in my black-and-white portraits.
Father and Daughter /
Portraits of my brother, Adam, and my niece, Selma, shot on film in Gaborone, Botswana in January, 2024.
My friend, Kirk /
Taken on a trip we made to Tofino in 2010, these photographs form part of a retrospective series of portraits I am assembling in celebration of Kirk’s upcoming 50th birthday. They were made with the inimitable Rolleiflex 6006 loaded with the long discontinued Kodak Portra 400NC, my all-time favourite colour negative film.
Portrait of the artist and his father, 2017 /
Taken by my mother in my parents’ back yard in suburban Gaborone.