Biography

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Vicki Jones (she/her) is a Naarm/Melbourne based photographer with a community focused, collaborative approach to image making. 

Jones has created photographic works, films, and recycled vintage lenses into wearable art. As a freelance photographer for 30 years she documented major events in The City of Melbourne, the mysterious ruined interior of The Regent Theatre prior to renovation and created portraits of artists, media identities and politicians.

She has a Diploma of Photography (Fine Art) ACPAC and a Graduate Diploma (Art History) Monash University. As a current Master of Arts (Photography) student, she is researching the politics of representation of gender identity, how photography provides a space to see beyond the gender binary and working in collaboration with LGBTIQA+ people.

Her exhibitions include Spotto at the  Fringe Festival, Calendar Girls at the Midsumma Festival, Below Zero – images from The Arctic at Rokeby Studios and From the Sky – images of Iceland  at Dench Café. Jones’s images have been selected as a Portrait Finalist at Head On 2024 and shortlisted at the Australian Photography Awards 2020. Collected images are held at The State Library of Victoria, the City of Melbourne and in private collections. Her freelance work has been published in books, magazines, and newspapers.

Jones manages Big Eye Studios in North Fitzroy on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people, as a photographic/video space and is developing it as a space to support female/non-binary/queer artists.