My name is Chester Jones, and I am a photographer specialising in documentary photography. Over my career, I’ve gained a broad range of experience from moving image, to mixed media works, to more traditional documentary photography. The latter is best exemplified in my ongoing project taking portraits and documenting the lives of Manchester’s hyper-exploited delivery drivers.
I dabble in various types of photography and video-making, but my real passion lies in the social and political side of things. For the most part, my creative practice has always spoken to social issues, something I plan to keep up throughout my career. My hopes being that I can continue to produce documentary projects working with marginalised communities. Finding ways to be creative whilst working on these topical projects, projects that require sincerity and respect, is a big challenge but something I hope to keep building on. This drive to create unique and engaging work that creates positive representations and counter-narratives of social issues is at the core of my career.