John Montfort Jones

Biography

John Montfort Jones’s photography of the Mississippi Delta has been featured in Delta magazine and in the book The Delta: Landscapes, Legends, and Legacies of Mississippi’s Most Storied Region, which won a gold medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. 

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REPORTING / Spring 2014

White Gold

By Gerard Helferich ,  Photography by John Montfort Jones

The all-​time peak for cotton farming in Mississippi was 1930, when more than 4 million acres were grown. In 2009, barely 300,000 acres were planted statewide. Mississippi has transformed from the Land of Cotton to the Land of Soybeans and...

A giant cotton picker in one of the fields of farmers Heath and Keath Killebrew, west of Yazoo City, MS, early October 2013.