Jon Edwards – Making Headlines…
Orchard Lunch © Jon Edwards, All Rights Reserved
Jon Edwards is an attorney (civil rights and environmental) but is much better known as a photographer. He joins Jack Montgomery, a Portland attorney who shows his provocative portraits at Susan Maasch Fine Art as well as other venues, and Jim Nickelson, a patent attorney and aeronautical engineer based in Camden, whose singular landscape photographs tend to stop viewers in their tracks (Jim is represented by VoxPhotographs and also posts here on technical stuff regularly). I bet there are other attorney/fine art photographer combos in Maine…but I think 2008 is Jon’s year.
Coming on the heels of graduating from the MFA program at Rockport College/Maine Media Workshops, Jon received notice that out of 900 submissions, he was one of six photographers to receive an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer Fellowship Grant. That’s pretty darn impressive!
From, A Way of Being – Communicating © Jon Edwards, All Rights Reserved
His new self-published book A Way of Being won first prize, Book Series, from the Prix de la Photographie Paris; he received an Honorable Mention from the Camera Club of New York (Larry Fink, Juror) and was named a finalist in the London Photographic Association “Let’s Face It 4″ competition. All this I learned from Maine Media Workshop’s photo newsletter (www.theworkshops.com/newsletters/mmw/2008-07-16/index.html), not from Jon himself.
Well, some of this info. is in the bio he sent to me in April, and most of it is on his website, but when we got together at the gallery to look at actual photographs, he never said a word about any of it. In his first book and catalog, Jon Edwards, complete with an introductory essay by Curator-At-Large Bruce Brown, eighteen of Jon’s images are carefully placed in a meaningful sequence. All the images are selenium toned silver gelatin prints.
Jon Edwards is a quiet type of guy. So, get on his website and enjoy the images that are helping him gain an international reputation because you probably won’t hear about these achievements from him.
