Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio

Photography assignments in West Africa – what the Florios have been up to lately

Since completely the inaugural ‘Photos Tell Stories: teaching photography – a visual language‘ workshops, in The Gambia, West Africa, Jason Florio and I have worked on a number of diverse assignments, here in West Africa – a couple of them together, just over the border into the Casamance, Southern Senegal, for NGO Concern Universal, andContinue reading “Photography assignments in West Africa – what the Florios have been up to lately”

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Press: ‘US photographers hold photo exhibition’ – Daily Observer, The Gambia, West Africa

To read the full article, please click here or on the above image Great to see a review of the Photos Tells Stories exhibition in Gambia’s Daily Observer newspaper. It’s just a shame that they didn’t use any of our Gambian students images, which we sent to them. However, you can see them byContinue reading “Press: ‘US photographers hold photo exhibition’ – Daily Observer, The Gambia, West Africa”

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Photos Tell Stories – through the lens: Africa by Africans

We arrived in The Gambia, West Africa, early December, 2013, by invitation from the US Embassy, Banjul, to teach a series of photography workshop – ‘Photos Tell Stories: teaching photography – a visual language‘. Our aim was to show young Gambian students, between the ages of 13-20 years old, how to see their ‘home‘ –Continue reading “Photos Tell Stories – through the lens: Africa by Africans”

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Reflecting – Photographs of The Gambia by Gambians

Looking back over the inaugural of ‘Photos Tell Stories: teaching photography – a visual language‘ workshops, which we taught earlier this year here in The Gambia, West Africa (thanks to the US Embassy, Banjul, for partnering with us). And, we can happily say that we are still as impressed by the quality of the youngContinue reading “Reflecting – Photographs of The Gambia by Gambians”