New York: High Life / Low Life

"Heaven help you if Dafydd Jones fixes you in his viewfinder. Mr. Jones, a Welshman who photographs for The New York Observer, specializes in deliciously cruel pictures of the social elite at play...Mr. Jones goes about his business with cheery zest and a wicked eye" - an interview from 1993, referencing work that will appear in Dafydd Jones' new book due for release in April 2024.

"From growing up in Carmarthen to traveling the world photographing the rich and famous, Dafydd Jones is one of Britain's leading society photographers. While working for magazines such as Tatler, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker his best known work includes early photos of politicians such as Boris Johnson and David Cameron and also celebrities of New York society such as Donald Trump and his family at parties and social events."

"Dachshunds, debutantes and Donald Trump: capturing the glitzy, bizarre world of 80s high society."

"Through these varying shades of grey, Jones was able to capture the pomp and grandeur of 1990s New York."

"British photographer Dafydd Jones documented New York's upper class in the 1990s. His photo book "High Life, Low Life" is a testimony to a time lost in dreams."

"The renowned photographer, known for his images of debauchery at Oxford University, has released a new book of his time among East Coast socialites."

"On 120 pages Dafydd thus reveals the story of New York, of the ups and downs and falls, a story about the incredible nineties that happened unfolded before his expert lens."

"Jones worked his magic at Vanity Fair during a heady time in the chronicle that is Manhattan, and for our present delectation, he and his camera seem to have attended every debutante ball, book signing, boldface charity softball game, memorial service and magazine launch worth the RSVP."

"After photographing Oxford and London’s royal and preppy upper class, Dafydd Jones set his sights on a new playground: New York City. His new book, a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Oxford: The Last Hurrah and England: The Last Hurrah, is New York: High Life, Low Life (ACC Art Books)."

"Dafydd Jones’s photography conjures a lost era of 1990s New York."

"New York in the 90's: when Dafydd Jones was the best party photographer in the world"

"The decade turned out to be the swan song for Manhattan's high society, the term used to define the most powerful and privileged folks in town, a latter-day version of the coterie tagged "The 400" in HBO's The Gilded Age... And no one captured their glamour, antics, excesses and guiltlessly indulgent ways better than Jones."

Dafydd Jones photo featured in the Photo London Editor's Choice

"The New York book is an evocative historical document, brimming with nostalgia and menace."

"In his new book, the photographer Dafydd Jones captures a bygone New York, an era of new and old money, La Grenouille and Le Cirque."

"His New York book... captures a time and a place better than just about any published folio."

"Jones has every right to be considered alongside Yousuf Karsh and Henri Carter-Bresson. Detached, ironic, with a great feel also for the street scenes of the poor. He should have been at Jay Gatsby's parties."

"Party Like It’s 1989: In the 1980s and ’90s, Dafydd Jones’s party shots captured Manhattan’s rich and powerful."

"Working the city’s social scene with his Leica M4-2 and Starblitz flashgun, Jones chronicled the era’s mystique and couture, its pomp, big budgets and big personalities."

"The photographs in the book transcend from party pictures to historical documents."

"Dark, glamorous and hedonistic...captures New York in the 1990s."