Dafydd Jones - Documentary Photography
Cox Green Community Centre, Maidenhead, SL6 3AX
Tuesday 15th September 2026
Dafydd began his career in 1981 photographing debutante dances, Hunt Balls and the social season for the Tatler.
About this period he said: “I had access to what felt like a secret world. It was a subject that had been written about and dramatised, but I don't think any photographers had ever tackled before.” In 1989 he moved to New York to work for Vanity Fair. Then the New York Observer. In 1996 he was back in England photographing for the English broadsheet newspapers and magazines. Also for several publications and websites that have ended as failures. An early adopter of digital photography he spent several years producing colour panoramas of social scenes.
From 2015 with the decline of magazines and fewer commissions he returned to the darkroom and began revisiting his pictures. Making prints into boxed sets on various themes. One box of prints of pictures from Oxford in the eighties was acquired by the Bodleian Library. The box included a letter from Dafydd explaining how he came to do the photographs. This box of prints was reproduced as the book. Oxford: The Last Hurrah with the letter becoming his introduction. Since then Acc Art books have published 4 more books by Dafydd each based on a different box of prints. His most recent book is on the changing university celebrations at Cambridge.
Dafydd's work is held in prestigious photography collections. The most important being the Hyman collection of British photography and the Martin Parr Foundation. He lives in East Sussex, England.
PLEASE BOOK VENUE TICKETS TO JOIN US AT THE MEETING IN COX GREEN OR ONLINE TO JOIN THE ZOOM TALK
About this period he said: “I had access to what felt like a secret world. It was a subject that had been written about and dramatised, but I don't think any photographers had ever tackled before.” In 1989 he moved to New York to work for Vanity Fair. Then the New York Observer. In 1996 he was back in England photographing for the English broadsheet newspapers and magazines. Also for several publications and websites that have ended as failures. An early adopter of digital photography he spent several years producing colour panoramas of social scenes.
From 2015 with the decline of magazines and fewer commissions he returned to the darkroom and began revisiting his pictures. Making prints into boxed sets on various themes. One box of prints of pictures from Oxford in the eighties was acquired by the Bodleian Library. The box included a letter from Dafydd explaining how he came to do the photographs. This box of prints was reproduced as the book. Oxford: The Last Hurrah with the letter becoming his introduction. Since then Acc Art books have published 4 more books by Dafydd each based on a different box of prints. His most recent book is on the changing university celebrations at Cambridge.
Dafydd's work is held in prestigious photography collections. The most important being the Hyman collection of British photography and the Martin Parr Foundation. He lives in East Sussex, England.
PLEASE BOOK VENUE TICKETS TO JOIN US AT THE MEETING IN COX GREEN OR ONLINE TO JOIN THE ZOOM TALK
