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...
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...
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...
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...
#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...
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...
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...
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...
Happy Holidays and a Prosperous 2020! With thanks to all our clients, and visitors to the gallery site. We look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year. Helen Jones-Florio Founder & Curator / helenjonesflorio.com Gallery Related Posts: Disappearing Malta – an unintentional photo series of doors...