Peter C. Jones 1, Sunset in the Red Room Large Format Photo 24X20 Color Photograph Beach House RI, 2001

Sunset in the Red Room, The Tappen House, Little Compton, RI (Rhode Island)
Moody photos of a summer vacation house at the beach.

Peter C. Jones is a fine art photographer, documentary film director, publication consultant, producer, and author. He has organized more than one hundred exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe and produced more than sixty books. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where he studied privately with Harry Callahan. Jones is President of the Josef and Yaye Breitenbach Foundation originating twenty-eight one-person exhibitions and ten books. He has served as a member of the Board of Fellows at The Center For Creative Photography. Jones is also a former consultant to The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Aperture and the Estate of Paul Strand.
In 2004, Nazraeli Press published Sweep Out Cottage, a compilation of photographs made in and around a house known as the Four Winds in Little Compton, Rhode Island. He has showed at KMR Arts Gallery and at Bonni Benrubi Gallery. His photos are in many private and public collections.
A Rising Tide of Silence was Jones’s first documentary production. The film explores the life and international influence of Father Thomas Keating who introduced Centering Prayer to a wide western audience. A Rising Tide of Silence premiered at the 2013 Aspen Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award. Peter Jones has spoken at numerous screenings most recently at Harvard and at the Dalai Lama’s Center For Ethics at MIT.Jones is the author of The Changing Face of America (Prentice Hall Press) and the co-author of three other books including Social Gardens (Stewart, Tabori & Chang). His photographs, articles, and op-ed pieces have been published by The New York Times Magazine, Connoisseur, Smart Money, Aperture, and The Providence Journal.
Peter C. Jones lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Charlotte M. Frieze, who is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Garden Editor of House & Garden magazine.

Group Exhibitions:
Hot Fun in the Summertime (Benrubi Gallery)
Damion Berger, Heidi Bassett Blair, LeRoy Grannis, Peter C. Jones, David Leventi, Evan Schwartz, Hiroshi Watanabe & others.

Blumen (Galerie Negulesco)
Peter C. Jones, Jonathan Lewis, Judith K. McMillian, Ron Van Dongen