Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio

“Hello, my name is Alieu” – the Tippy Tap is in The (#ebolafree) Gambia, West Africa

It’s great to see Jason’s images from our ‘Tippy Tap‘ assignment – we did a few months back here in The Gambia – for NGO, Concern Universal, up on their new website. For such a simple, affordable, invention the rewards of using the Tippy Tap are tenfold for the people we met… such as WudayContinue reading ““Hello, my name is Alieu” – the Tippy Tap is in The (#ebolafree) Gambia, West Africa”

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New photo project: Masquerades, The (#ebolafree) Gambia, West Africa

Now that we are back in The Gambia, we’ll be continuing with a photography project, based on the traditional masquerades of this region of West Africa. Despite the Gambia being a predominantly Muslim country, the animist fuelled masquerade ceremonies pre-date the arrival of Islam and are still tolerated and practiced around the country. Animism is anContinue reading “New photo project: Masquerades, The (#ebolafree) Gambia, West Africa”

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A week of crocs and quad bikes in (#ebolafree) Gambia, West Africa

We’ve had a busy, adventurous – and extremely exhilarating – kind of week, since we completed our walk of the Gambian coastline, finishing off a couple of travel assignments… from getting up close and personal with big crocodiles, to throttling around in the Gambian bush, getting thoroughly down and dirty in the process, on TonkaContinue reading “A week of crocs and quad bikes in (#ebolafree) Gambia, West Africa”

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The River Gambia meets the East River, NYC – a floating photographic exhibition

At Photoville, NYC, 2013, we exhibited Jason Florio’s ‘River Gambia‘ body of work – taken whilst we were on the ‘River Gambia Expedition – 1044km source-sea African odyssey‘. So, we were very excited when, earlier this year, the organizers of PV – United Photo Industries – approached us to see if we would like toContinue reading “The River Gambia meets the East River, NYC – a floating photographic exhibition”