Jason Florio
Jason Florio, FRGS (Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society, London), is an award-winning photographer, and filmmaker, whose work has focused on under-reported stories on people living on the margins of society and in places of conflict. He photographs, films. and writes for publications including New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Newsweek, MIT Technology Review, National Geographic, The Independent on Sunday, Virginia Quarterly Review, Men’s Journal, Geographical, AFAR, IRIN, and Outside Magazine. Florio’s photography has been solo exhibited globally and has won numerous international awards and his work has been acquired by a number of museums. His fine art photography prints can be purchased from the Helen Jones-Florio Online Gallery.
Read more about Jason Florio
Please visit floriophoto.com for more information. Check out Florio on Real Exposures– B&H Photo, NYC as he talks about his career as a photojournalist.
Assignments: contact directly (florio@floriophoto.com) or via Marcel Saba at Redux Pictures, NYC
Instagram: @jasonflorio / @jasonflorio.photoprints / @floriophotos
Helen Jones-Florio
Helen Jones-Florio is a photography producer, videographer, writer, and blogger. She has been traveling to West Africa for almost 20 years and has produced photography assignments around Africa, USA, Mexico, and Europe. She is the co-founder of the ‘Photos Tell Stories’ photography workshops, and has created and produced extensive content for her expedition and photography workshop blogs. She is currently finishing a book about their 2009 expedition – based around her personal journal entries – and collaborating with Jason and on a book about their 2012-13 expedition.
Published work includes – writing and photography: Adventure Travel Magazine (UK), ‘Wings’ (Arik Airlines in-flight magazine), American Photography’s Pro Photo Daily, Africa Geographic/Safari Interactive Magazine, Travel Africa Magazine (UK), Resource Magazine (USA), Amazing Travel Stories (USA), B Spirit/B There (Brussels Airlines inflight magazine), Concern Universal, NGO, Gambia Experience Magazine (UK), Stellazine (USA), African World Heritage Annual Report.
Instagram: @doors_helenjonesflorio @floriophotos @jasonflorio_photoprints
Helen is also the founder and curator of helenjonesflorio.com online gallery – selling Jason Florio’s limited edition fine art photography prints, along with her long-term series’ of doors, and storefronts, #GambiaDoors, and #DisappearingMalta prints.
Email us: helen.jones@floriophoto.com if you would like us to hold a ‘Photos Tell Stories: teaching photography – a visual language’ photography workshop with you/your company.
The West Africa connection: Jason and Helen met in The Gambia, many years ago, whilst each was visiting mutual friends. Since 1997, Jason traveled yearly to The Gambia to work on a long-term project about the people who live and work around the sacred forest of ‘Makasutu’ – the resulting book of this work can be viewed here : Blurb Books.
Together, Jason and Helen have made two West Africa expeditions to produce extensive bodies of photographic, written and video material. In 2009 they made the first recorded circumnavigation of The Gambia by foot – ‘A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush -a 930km African odyssey‘. In 2012/13 they made the first recorded expedition to document the communities along the 1130km course of River Gambia – ‘River Gambia Expedition – 1130km source-sea African odyssey‘. In 2014, sponsored by the US Embassy, Banjul they taught a series of ‘Photos Tell Stories‘ workshops to Gambian students – introducing photography as a way to document and share their lives as part of a cultural exchange.
Presentations: Jason And Helen are available for talks and presentations about their expeditions – please email helen.jones@floriophoto.com for information and bookings.
Past presentations include: Foto Care, NYC; Foto Fusion, Palm Beach, Florida; APNY ‘Image Makers’, Apple Store, NYC; Athens Photo Festival, Greece; Mailman School of Public Health, NYC.
Jason Florio – published work. Click imageS below to view slideshow. See more at floriophoto.com
For all Jason Florio fine art photography print inquiries, including a price list, please email helen@helenjonesflorio.com – Founder of ‘helenjonesflorio Gallery – purveyor of fine photographic prints’
Jason and Helen are based mainly in The Gambia, West Africa, covering human rights issues, working on NGO assignments, and personal projcts
‘Gambia – victims, and resisters‘
#Portraits4PositiveChange
Related links:
rivergambiaexpedition – blog
ashortwalkinthegambianbush – blog
PHOTOS TELL STORIES - documentary | filmmaking | photography | people | travel 
Hi our International Professional leaders Jackson Frorio & Helen Jones-Florio, I really recommend both of you as our Professions and praying good health through yur international traveling. And how ever through yur hardworking observations through out the world. So good luck!. But Mis to se you all Then wish you happy holiday of The Gambia about Christmas. So good luck-peace days up to the final Christmas Day, I hope you all enjoy it as our International Professional Photographers of world wide. So am behind you as the Smilling Coast Victim member, an He also wish you Happy Merry Christmas and happy new year.