Author: Helen Jones Florio
Photo Swindon International Photography Exhibition - 1st July-3rd October, 2021
'In Sync - Natures of Togetherness'
Jason Florio | Martin Parr | Sanne de Wilde
Photo Swindon International Photography Competition: Men unloading a motorcycle from a local ferry on the River Gambia, The Gambia, West Africa. Image ©Jason...
23 June, 2021
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Podcast:Today two stories featuring humanitarian photojournalist Jason Florio. In the first we talk about a photo expedition he took with his wife and business partner Helen Jones-Florio along the Gambia River, which sounds beautifully romantic and exotic in equal measure, but doesn’t come without its...
10 June, 2021
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Looking back - River Gambia: between November 2012 – January 2013 – we (myself, Helen Jones-Florio, photographer and filmmaker, Jason Florio, and two Gambian friends, Abdou and Ebou) made the first fully-documented expedition of one of Africa's last free-flowing major rivers, the River Gambia, West...
17 March, 2021
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The Gambia - R.I.P. Radio Syd, the first commercial radio station in Africa. I was extremely saddened to hear that Radio Syd had been almost entirely destroyed in a fire earlier this year, January 2020. Thankfully, the Swedish couple, Benny and Connie, who used to...
18 November, 2020
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We are thrilled to be chosen for The Photoville FENCE, 2020, with ‘Gambia – victims and resisters‘ – an ongoing multimedia body of work that began back in 2016. With the blessing of those we have photographed and filmed, our intention has always been to share their very personal...
12 October, 2020
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#SaveTheArts - To all professionals in the film, television, theatre, entertainment, and arts world, join the challenge to post a photo of you in your job. Just a picture, no description. The goal is to flood social media with our profession. Copy the text and...
08 July, 2020
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Gambia Doors - I have a slight obsession with doors and storefronts. These images form part of a much wider collection of photographs of doors and storefronts from The Gambia. Wherever I travel to, for work or play, the collection gets bigger! #DisappearingMalta is also...
18 May, 2020
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In isolation between a 'Rock and a Hot Place' - we arrived in the UK just over a month ago, for a short break from our assignments in The Gambia, West Africa. We had intended to head to the small island of Malta, which we...
14 April, 2020
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Tuesday 24th March, 2020: The first day of the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson’s lockdown to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. In Central London the streets were abnormally quiet, it felt as if nearly all of society had been sieved away, and only...
26 March, 2020
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'Speak a new language...
31 December, 2019
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