Helen Jones holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. She spent the intervening years in Oregon, where she established Pine Island Press, a small press specializing in publishing photography and art zines. Incandescent, PIP's primary publication, is a bi-annual zine showcasing emerging photographers working with color analog film. Helen's aesthetic is one of things built up unintentionally and of imprints left behind. Her photographs explore interactions between people, places, and landscapes. She never misses a chance for a road trip, dislikes rust in her cast iron, and salts just about everything. She can be found on Instagram at @helenjonesphotographs.
Exhibitions
• Dewpoint, slideshow hosted by The Humid, Athens, Georgia, October 2022.
• To light and then return, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, North Carolina, September 2022.
• Deeper Roots Than Reason, Contra/Common, Bee Cave, Texas, July 2022.
• Bag Lunch, UnSmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock, Pennsylvania, July 2022.
• Painted Hooves, Visual Arts Center, Austin, Texas, May 2022.
• Mirror Drama, Visual Arts Center, Austin, Texas, February 2021.
• Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2019.
• Open Juried Exhibition, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont, March 2018.
• Off The Fridge, the Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts, February, 2016.
• All Visual Boston Slideshow, Spectacle, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, January 2013.
• Portraiture Now: Constructing Photography, Juried Group Show, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, June 2011.
• Human Artifact, Juried Group Show, Vermont Photo Space Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont, February 2011.
• The Arrangement Juried Group Show, Vermont Photo Space Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont, January 2011.
Online
• Photographers on Photographers: Helen Jones in Conversation With Barbara Bosworth, Lenscratch , August 2022
• Nowhere Diary, 2021
• Lenscratch Student Prize, 26 to watch, 2021
• Don't Smile, Earth Mother/Mother Earth, April 2020.
• From Here On Out, 2019.
• Fstop Magazine, Land, Sea, Air Issue #90, Interview, 2018.
• Ain’t-Bad, 2018.
• Uncertain Magazine Issue 2, 2018.
• Float Magazine, 2017.
• Vermont Center for Photography Instagram Takeover, August 2016.
• C41 Magazine, 2016.
• TMP Issue 5 , 2016.
Publications
• Bag Lunch exhibition catalog, 2022
• Painted Hooves exhibition catalog, accompanying essay by Donato Loia, 2022.
• To light and then return, Self Published, 2022.
• Subjectively, Objective Monthly Monograph Magazine Issue 11, 2018.
•Stripes of light, Self Published / Pine Island Press, 2018.
•Good Days Gone Cold Days, Pine Island Press / Half-Stop Press, 2015.
•The Heat Takes It Down, Self Published / Pine Island Press, 2013.
• Incandescent Issue 3, Pine Island Press, 2013.
• Incandescent Issue 1, Pine Island Press, 2012.
• Tri-County Pie Eat Vol 1, Half-Price Pizza Slice Press, 2011.
Residencies
• Imagine Butte Resource Center, April, 2018.
Exhibitions
• Dewpoint, slideshow hosted by The Humid, Athens, Georgia, October 2022.
• To light and then return, Greensboro Project Space, Greensboro, North Carolina, September 2022.
• Deeper Roots Than Reason, Contra/Common, Bee Cave, Texas, July 2022.
• Bag Lunch, UnSmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock, Pennsylvania, July 2022.
• Painted Hooves, Visual Arts Center, Austin, Texas, May 2022.
• Mirror Drama, Visual Arts Center, Austin, Texas, February 2021.
• Pacific Northwest Photography Viewing Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2019.
• Open Juried Exhibition, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont, March 2018.
• Off The Fridge, the Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts, February, 2016.
• All Visual Boston Slideshow, Spectacle, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, January 2013.
• Portraiture Now: Constructing Photography, Juried Group Show, Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, June 2011.
• Human Artifact, Juried Group Show, Vermont Photo Space Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont, February 2011.
• The Arrangement Juried Group Show, Vermont Photo Space Gallery, Essex Junction, Vermont, January 2011.
Online
• Photographers on Photographers: Helen Jones in Conversation With Barbara Bosworth, Lenscratch , August 2022
• Nowhere Diary, 2021
• Lenscratch Student Prize, 26 to watch, 2021
• Don't Smile, Earth Mother/Mother Earth, April 2020.
• From Here On Out, 2019.
• Fstop Magazine, Land, Sea, Air Issue #90, Interview, 2018.
• Ain’t-Bad, 2018.
• Uncertain Magazine Issue 2, 2018.
• Float Magazine, 2017.
• Vermont Center for Photography Instagram Takeover, August 2016.
• C41 Magazine, 2016.
• TMP Issue 5 , 2016.
Publications
• Bag Lunch exhibition catalog, 2022
• Painted Hooves exhibition catalog, accompanying essay by Donato Loia, 2022.
• To light and then return, Self Published, 2022.
• Subjectively, Objective Monthly Monograph Magazine Issue 11, 2018.
•Stripes of light, Self Published / Pine Island Press, 2018.
•Good Days Gone Cold Days, Pine Island Press / Half-Stop Press, 2015.
•The Heat Takes It Down, Self Published / Pine Island Press, 2013.
• Incandescent Issue 3, Pine Island Press, 2013.
• Incandescent Issue 1, Pine Island Press, 2012.
• Tri-County Pie Eat Vol 1, Half-Price Pizza Slice Press, 2011.
Residencies
• Imagine Butte Resource Center, April, 2018.