Richard Jones is an award winning British photojournalist based in Hong Kong. He was brought up near Cardiff, South Wales, UK and now lives in Hong Kong and Tokyo. He is the founder of Sinopix Photo Agency.
Richard was nominated and "Highly Commended" in the Foreign Reporter of the Year category at the UK Press Awards for 2010.
Richard recently garnered world attention when wife of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

an president Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...

, Grace Mugabe

Grace Mugabe

Grace Mugabe , , is the second wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the First Lady of Zimbabwe from her marriage to the leader in 1996....

 and her bodyguard beat him up on the streets of Hong Kong while he was working for the Sunday Times newspaper. Richard Jones’ work related to China’s One-Child Policy

One-child policy

The one-child policy refers to the one-child limitation applying to a minority of families in the population control policy of the People's Republic of China . The Chinese government refers to it under the official translation of family planning policy...

has won numerous Human Rights Press Awards and a National Press Photographers Association Award.