Jason Florio – currently on assignment for Smithsonian Magazine, in South Africa – on route to Botswana Instagram @jasonflorio / website floriophoto.com
via Johannesburg, a glimpse – images © Jason Florio — Jason Florio
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9/11 – ‘Never Forget’ – images ©Jason Florio
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‘Makasutu’ – “Powerful, penetrating, beautiful and stunning B&W portraits…” by Jason Florio
“With little command of the local language, I could only but ask my subjects to stand and look directly into the lens. With little direction on my part, I found that the subjects in front of the camera would become silently quizzical of themselves and how they wanted to be portrayed.” Jason Florio – ‘Makasutu’ award-winning portraits
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Happy Labor Day, 2017!
Happy Labor Day!
‘Fireworks‘ by Robert Goldstein – black and white fine art photography prints, available from the helenjonesflorio.com online gallery.
Exhibition – ‘Face to Face’ Sean Henry Sculptures, The Lightbox, Woking
Face to Face – sculptures by Sean Henry
12 August 2017 – 5 November 2017
Exhibition – The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey, UK
‘Henry’s work is highly realistic and essentially modern in its choice of subject matter, colour and materials. His figures – often anonymous men and women – have an emphatic physicality which allows room for the viewer to draw their own interpretations, while deliberate changes to scale and colour imbue his figures with a powerful interiority and ‘presence’.’ Read more The Lightbox
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Beekeepers of Surrey ©Jason Florio
Learning the family business
- Grandfather Florio with grandson Florio preparing to harvest some Surrey honey, UK © Jason Florio
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‘The Future’s So Bright’ – African skin bleaching. Self-Portraits © Diana Fine
‘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 the social norms around beauty and power in Africa; norms that incubated in the shadow of colonialism, Western primacy and the aesthetic ideals that were perpetuated during that period.
The ideals of beauty continue to plaque African societies and African women disproportionately, some six decades after we’ve regained independence” Diane Fine
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Postcards from Brighton ©Helen Jones-Florio
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Magnum Photography Awards 2017 – Jason Florio Photojournalism Winner ‘Destination Europe’
‘For the past two years (2015-16), I was embedded with the first search and rescue NGO, Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), to operate rescue ships. Their specific aim is to save the lives of migrants and refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean and Aegean seas...’ Jason Florio – Read/see more on the LensCulture site
Onboard a fishing boat 30 miles off the coast of Libya, a Bangladeshi man begs to be released from the overcrowded hold of the boat where he was packed with 150 men in slave-ship like conditions. The boat carried414 migrants and refugees attempting to reach Italy. The migrant boat was intercepted by the NGO Migrant Offshore Aid Station’s rescue ship, and all the people on board were evacuated. © Jason Florio/MOAS
PHOTOJOURNALISM SERIES WINNER/ MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2017 JASON FLORIO United Kingdom ‘Destination Europe’
Gambian and other West African migrants just rescued from a packed rubber boat off the coast of Libya huddle on the deck of Migrant Offshore Aid Station’s ship. In the background, their rubber boat is set ablaze to prevent smugglers, who were circling during the rescue, from taking the engine and boat back to Libya to use again. © Jason Florio.
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