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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Disappearing New York - on a recent trip back to New York, walking around our old neighbourhood of Greenwich Village, since my previous visit, I was struck by the dramatic change in the landscape of the city. ...
21 October, 2019
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'A Movable Beast' Rhino relocation by Jason Florio, Dodho Magazine - In a response to the dire situation that is facing rhinos in Africa, with rhino poaching at an all-time high, concerned conservationists teamed together to create Rhinos Without Borders. Rhinos Without Borders. plans to relocate...
04 February, 2019
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[caption id="attachment_20667" align="aligncenter" width="667"] GoFundMe - Jason Florio: Ngoi Njie from was picked up by Gambia's feared NIA and tortured along with other Gambians who were protesting on April 14th, 2016 for electoral reform, including activist Solo Sandeng whose death she witnessed at the hands...
19 November, 2018
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Photography Prints Gallery - River Gambia Expedition
Jason Florio
'December 2012 - January 2013 - My wife, Helen Jones-Florio, and I co-led the first recorded source-to-sea expedition along the length of River Gambia...
30 January, 2018
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'The Future's So Bright'
Self-portraits by Diana Fine
'Bright' is a slang term for light complexion in the African Diaspora
" 'The Future's So Bright' represents my engagement with societal norms around
beauty and power in Africa; norms that incubated in the shadow of colonialism,
Western primacy and the aesthetic...
01 August, 2017
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Exhibition News:
Ritty Tacsum - 'Two Islands' - Solo Show, Photoville, NYC, September 21-25, 2016
We are extremely proud and excited for one of the Helen Jones-Florio Gallery collective, Malta-based, experimental photographer and multi-media artist, Ritty Tacsum. Tacsum will be exhibiting, for her first time, in NYC at this...
19 September, 2016
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Unframed Framed
Here at the Helen Jones-Florio gallery, we offer predominantly unframed prints. However, occasionally, our photographers offer pre-framed special editions of some of their work. To help give potential clients a visual idea of how the HJF gallery photographers prints look in frames, following, you will...
13 September, 2016
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Printing fine art photography prints
'Finding a printer who can translate or even transcend your photographic vision and put it on to paper is, for me, an essential part of my work process. I met Pascal when we were both in the early days of our...
06 July, 2016
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Chris Bartlett Q&A with Stella Kramer
A New York born and bred photo editor, consultant, and curator, Stella is a woman who I was introduced to by - my then husband-to-be, HJF Gallery photographer, Jason Florio, on one of my earlier trips to NYC, before relocating there...
05 May, 2016
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