Kayt Jones is an award-winning portrait photographer and director whose work is defined by its intimacy, character, and cinematic precision. With over two decades of experience, she has built a reputation for capturing some of the most influential figures in film and culture with striking, human-centered imagery.

A graduate of the University of Westminster with a BA in Film, Video and Photographic Arts, Kayt brings a deeply narrative sensibility to her work. Her portraits include artists and filmmakers such as Christopher Nolan, Tilda Swinton, Rosamund Pike, Saoirse Ronan, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone, and Amanda Seyfried.

Expanding her practice into directing, Kayt is currently helming Hidden Shakespeare, a feature documentary rooted in more than a decade of original research into the hidden networks, patrons, and intellectual forces that shaped the Renaissance. The film brings her into collaboration with leading scholars and institutions, exploring the intersection of art, power, and identity at the heart of Shakespeare’s world.

Alongside this, she is producing a slate of documentary work, including a project with Emmy winners Jeff Zimbalist and Stone Roberts examining the human stories behind global online romance scams, as well as her first feature film, her original script adaptation of the novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë.

Across photography and film, Kayt’s work is driven by a singular focus: to reveal the truth beneath the image, and to create work that is as emotionally resonant as it is visually enduring.