Jon Rees
What’s on offer
Jon is offering photography workshops, exploring different themes such as; identity, memory, loss and change. These are part of his ongoing Changing Perspectives project.
No skill or experience is needed to participate, just a device that takes photos.
For more information : https://www.iamjonrees.com/changing-perspectives
For bookings from individuals and organisations, please contact: iamjonrees@gmail.com | +447749 998937
More about Jon
Jon Rees is an artist and photographer, having graduated from Byam Shaw School of Art at Central St Martins with a First Class Hons, BA in Fine Art. As part of his own recovery from mental health, addiction and homelessness he found photography incredibly important in making peace with the past and the present. He is now a trained practitioner of therapeutic photography. Over the last 5 years, he has delivered his workshops to a variety of groups including; NHS staff, young Disabled people, people in recovery from addiction, people who are experiencing homelessness, and new mums, among many others.
“Photography quietens my mind and I have a mind that really needs quietening. It can help improve our wellbeing, mental health and connection with others and the world around us. When I’m looking through the lens of a camera all I’m engaged in is light, form, tone, colour, the collisions of things, how they overlap or interact or reflect in each other. I am completely in the moment and nothing else matters. Being creative also helps to heal me. I have made work about things that I couldn’t really process in any other way. The act of doing this has been immensely therapeutic, regardless of how the work turns out.
Making art gives me hope, it makes life more interesting, whatever I’m working on encourages me to take more interest in everything else. Being creative is an enormous part of who I am and always will be.
My vision is to be part of an art movement which is open to the whole community, that isn’t just there to produce the next Turner prize winner, which isn’t concerned about the art market but is outward looking and accessible to all.”