Ryan Christopher Jones

Ryan Christopher Jones
Testing for Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the inland Delta. Toxic HABs bloom in the water and aerosolize into the air.
Ryan Christopher Jones
Ryan Christopher Jones is working in The California Delta as a Documentary Fellow. Visit fellow's website

Ryan Christopher Jones is a Mexican American photojournalist PhD student in Social Anthropology and Critical Media Practice.

His research is at the intersection of political ecology and media studies, focusing on the politics of water in Central California and semiotic problems of environmental visibility/invisibility.

Prior to starting the doctoral program at Harvard, Ryan worked as a photojournalist for The New York Times, The Washington Post, ProPublica and others, reporting on migration, labor, and the environment across the United States and Mexico. In 2022 Ryan was awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for his reporting on Mexican-American communities in California and New York, and from 2022-23 he served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prizes for Photojournalism.