Media: Le Monde Afrique – In the Gambia, the wounded faces of Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship

Posted byJason Florio & Helen Jones-FlorioPosted inDOCUMENTARY, JASON FLORIO PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOBLOGTags:, , , , , , , ,
In April 2000, Yusupha was shot in the back by Yahya Jammeh regime forces while attending a protest. He was left paralyzed. Image © Jason Florio
In April 2000, Yusupha was shot in the back by Yahya Jammeh regime forces while attending a protest. Image © Jason Florio

British photographers Jason Florio and Helen Jones-Florio met dozens of victims of the former president’s regime

“I do not care what you do with my photo or my testimony,” concluded Alagie Sonko after the meeting. It is the fact that you came to listen to me that did me the greatest good” Alagie Sonko, the Gambia – Le Monde Afrique / Romain Chanson

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Portraits for Positive Change forms part of an on-going body of work also known as ‘Gambia – Victims and resisters of a regime’

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