Exhibition News:'Hidden Gambia - a visual journey to the heart of The Gambia' as seen through the eyes of Gambian, and Gambia-based, photographers and filmmakers. Masterclass and one-one mentoring by Jason Florio, award-winning photographer and filmmaker, and producer, Helen Jones-Florio for the International Trade Centre/Andandorr...
Press - Jason Florio: Trial International - Portraits fo the victims of Yahya Jammeh, ex-president of The Gambia TRIAL International - PUTTING FACES ON THE LOVED ONES OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS. Images ©Jason Florio/Helen Jones-Florio A young girl, whose father was reduced to a picture on a...
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...
CAP PRIZE 2021 SHORTLIST: We are truly honoured to be on the CAP Prize shortlist – The Contemporary African Photography Prize – with our ongoing series, ‘Gambia-victims, and resisters’ ‘Gambia – victims, and resisters’ The Gambia, West Africa, is a popular winter-sun holiday destination, but many tourists are not...
African Film Festival, New York, 2021: 'I Cannot Bury My Father' documentary - In 2005, Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh murdered 56 West African migrants out of fear they were mercenaries intending to overthrow him. The disappearance of their slain bodies robbed families of healing...
'Boy with Sequined Face', West Africa. Photography Prints from the award-winning 'Makasutu' series of portraits. Image ©Jason Florio Buy beautiful, eclectic, fine art photography prints by Jason Florio - a multi-award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Here at the helenjonesflorio.com gallery, we have been proudly selling Florio's...
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...
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...
A short documentary about the 56 West African migrants forcibly disappeared and killed in 2005 in Gambia by security forces on orders of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh. Director/Producer Nana-Jo Ndow/ANEKED, Director of Photography, Jason Florio...
