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...
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...
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...
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...
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...