DAVEY JONES
Davey Jones' work is a culmination of traditional filmmaking techniques applied to fine art photography. "I'd rather create one beautiful scene than an entire movie" states Jones, an Emmy award winning visual effects producer with over 15 years experience in the film industry.
The transition from concept to reality can take up to six months, with Jones overseeing the construction of the props, costumes, sets and other key elements. The day of the shoot is familiar to anyone who has even been on a movie set, as Jones divides his time between rehearsing the shot with the actors and coordinating final setup with the lighting, makeup and wardrobe departments before capturing the final scene on film.
Once the negatives are processed and scanned, Jones experience in visual f/x comes into play, spending weeks, sometimes even months in "post-production" where all of the photographic elements are meticulously assembled to produce the final piece.
An unlikely artist with no formal training and diverse influences ranging from filmmakers Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick and Terry Gilliam to the artists such as Gustave’ Dore and Robert Park-Harrison, Jones work is an exploration into his interests into science, mythology, painting, religion and literature. "Because of the nature of the imagery I create, people tend to not believe me when I say that I've spent more time obsessing over Raphael's "La Belle Jardinière" than the whole of contemporary painters and photographers combined".
Jones was born in a small town in West Virginia where he attended a Catholic school whose entryway contained a full size replica of Michelangelo's "Pieta". States Jones, "Even though I’ve never fully been able to embrace the theology behind it, I have been very influenced by the imagery and mythology of Catholicism, and in fact, still am today."
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