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Screengrab from Elizabeth Avedon's blog post depicting a hand-painted barbershop, The Gambia, West Africa. Image ©Helen Jones-Florio from #GambiaDoors

Elizabeth Avedon Blog: Helen Jones-Florio Doors and Storefronts, The Gambia + Malta

Elizabeth Avedon Blog: Helen Jones-Florio Doors and Storefronts, The Gambia + Malta. Many thanks to Elizebeth for featuring my work - my passion for doors, and storefronts, from my #GambiaDoors and #DisappearingMalta ongoing series. See more on her blog: Elizabeth Avedon Blog Speaking of Portals reminded...

23 August, 2021 / 0 Comments

#GambiaDoors: Doors and Storefronts of The Gambia, West Africa. Mural’s depicting disciples, Lamp Faal and Baye Faal, of the Mouride Sufi Brotherhood, Banjul. Image ©Helen Jones-Florio

Gambia Doors – unique and colourful doors and storefronts of The Gambia, West Africa

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 / 0 Comments

Image ©Jason Florio - Yahya Jammeh ruled the Gambia with an iron fist for twenty two years after taking control of the country with a coup in July1994. With Jammeh's exile after electoral defeat in 2016, a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) was set up to look into his regime's abuses. The TRRC along with victims families and local media at Yundum army Barracks where the bodies of seven murdered soldiers were exhumed. The soldiers were murdered by soldiers loyal to Jammeh for being allegedly part of a counter coup in November 1994. Witnesses say eleven soldiers were buried at the barracks, so far only seven have been found. Along with the bone fragments, electrical cables were also found that were used to bind the victims hands. The only clothing found were underwear, corroborating witness testimonies that the men were stripped almost naked before being shot.

Stories Behind Doors Gambia – Yundum Army Barracks

Stories Behind DoorsGambia, West Africa - 'Well come to No.4', Yundum Army Barracks, The Gambia - this door, to a Gambian soldiers quarters, overlooks the site on the camp where the bodies of seven murdered soldiers were exhumed. The soldiers were murdered by soldiers loyal...

29 April, 2019 / 0 Comments