Redux Pictures features: ‘Gambia – victims, and resisters’ ©Jason Florio/Helen Jones-Florio

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“The Gambia – Victims & Resisters”  Jason Florio (@jasonflorio) on-going multimedia series in collaboration with Helen Jones-Florio. Read below for a full description of the project. Link in bio to view more of this series and Jason’s work. … The Gambia – Victims & Resisters The Gambia, West Africa is a popular winter-sun holiday destination for Europeans. But, most tourists have little idea of the dark and shattered underbelly of 'The Smiling Coast of Africa', as the Gambia is fondly called. From 1994 -2017 President Yahya Jammeh ruled the Gambia as his own fiefdom, crushing dissent, and opposition with brutality. His personal hit squad and National Intelligence Agency carried out tortures, assassinations, and acts of sexual violence with impunity – journalists were gunned down and disappeared, students shot in cold blood, and even his own cousins were murdered on his order. The portraits and collected testimonies are part of an ongoing body of work to tell the stories of the victims and resisters of Jammeh’s 22 year dictatorship. The work aims to expose the wide-reaching forms and scale of human rights abuses under the Jammeh's regime – to create a historical archive and as a tool for advocacy.

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Huge thanks to my agents, Redux Pictures, for featuring an on-going body of work, ‘Gambia – victims, and resisters’, in collaboration with Helen Jones-Florio

Jason Florio

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February 2020 – Currently in The Gambia, West Africa

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