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Photojournalist Clyde Jones Passes On
News Americas Now reported that award-winning Caribbean-American photojournalist Clyde Jones has passed away. The Cuban-born Barbadian photographer covered the diaspora in New York and the Caribbean. He was raised in Sugar Hill in St Joseph, Barbados. After his studies at Montreal’s Institute of Photography, he moved to New York in 1964.
Award-winning photojournalist, Cuban-born Barbadian Clyde Jones, reportedly died in hospital after a prolonged illness, according to long-time journalist, Tony Best, writing for the
Barbados Nation.
Jones, who was born in Sugar Hill in St Joseph, was in his late 80s. His wife, Thelma Jones, a former Wall Street banker, told Best that her husband passed away in Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn.
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Clyde Jones, a leading photojournalist in New York whose camera took him to most landmarks in New York and key economic diplomatic and social events and institutions in the United States and Barbados died in a New York hospital today after a prolonged illness.
Jones was in his late 80s.
Thelma, his wife of more than 50 years said: “He passed away in Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn. Clyde was truly an outstanding person who loved his country and is going to be mourned by many people knew and admired him. He is going to be missed.”
Christopher Bennett, Jones’ 20-year-old son, a Brooklyn student, said his father was “very supportive of his dreams and aspirations and “was always there for me”.