Happy New Year from #ebolafree Gambia! A Year in the life of a photographer and producer team

Traditional masquerades – ‘Fairies’ – Banjul, The Gambia. Image © Jason Florio (personal multi media project with Helen Jones-Florio)

Village Banking, Ghana, West Africa – Image © Jason Florio for Concern Universal, NGO

Ebola sensitization in The Gambia, West Africa – Image © Jason Florio for Concern Universal, NGO

Multi-media: Togolese artist, Amigoe – Image © Jason Florio (personal multi-media project with Helen Jones-Florio) – Vimeo – ‘I am Amigoe, artist-painter’

BBC Africa News – Image © Helen Jones-Florio – 12/30/2014

Updated ‘A Year in the Life of…’: 12/31/14

Thankfully, all is now quiet on the ‘Smiling Coast‘ of The Gambia, after yesterdays ‘attempted coup’.

It’s now been a little over a year since we packed our bags and left behind our much loved apartment, in Greenwich Village, to temporarily decamp the all too comfortable familiarities of our cosmopolitan New York City…