Archives: Blackout Portraits by Jason Florio

 

Blackout Portraits 'Policeman' - Mogadishu © Jason Florio
Blackout Portraits – Policeman, Mogadishu © Jason Florio
Blackout Portraits 'Soldier TFG' - Mogadishu © Jason Florio
Blackout Portraits – Soldier, Mogadishu © Jason Florio

 

Blackout History

In the mid-1940’s as the German’s blitzed London, my grandmother and her neighbors used clothes to blackout the light emitting from their windows so as not to guide the Luftwaffe on their deadly mission…’ In the mid-90’s, unbeknown to him at the time, Jason Florio began to use the very same blackout curtain, which his grandmother used during the World War 11, as a backdrop to various portrait collections. Read & see more on Florio’s website

'Fighter for the Karen National Liberation Army' - Blackout portraits, Burma © Jason Florio
‘Fighter for the Karen National Liberation Army’ – Blackout portraits, Burma © Jason Florio

 

'Makasutu' Portraits, The Gambia ©Jason Florio
‘Makasutu’ Blackout Portraits, The Gambia ©Jason Florio
'Silafando' The Gambia - Blackout Portraits © Jason Florio
‘Silafando’ – Blackout Portraits, The Gambia © Jason Florio

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Published by Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio

Award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and writer, Jason Florio (floriophoto.com), and photographer, producer, videographer and writer, Helen Jones-Florio http://www.rivergambiaexpedition.com/ http://930kmafricanodyssey.tumblr.com/ https://www.facebook.com/floriophotostellstories Twitter @floriophotonNYC Instagram https://www.instagram.com/floriotravels/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jasonflorio/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florio_gallery/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/doors_facades_florio/

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