Wishing all the team onboard the Phoenix – which also includes photographer, Jason Florio – a safe journey, as they head back down towards the coast of Libya, for their second search and rescue mission of 2016, in the Mediterranean Sea. Helen Jones-Florio
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The Phoenix Heads Out to the Mediterranean – photographer, Jason Florio, onboard once again
On Monday, June 6, 2016, I watched from my vantage point on the rocks overlooking the historical Grand Harbour, and the Three Cities, Malta, as the Phoenix sailed out towards the Mediterranean on its first mission of 2016 in those waters. Once more onboard – just as he had been in 2015 – myContinue reading “The Phoenix Heads Out to the Mediterranean – photographer, Jason Florio, onboard once again”
Protected: Al Jazeera America – ‘Danger at Sea’ interview with photojournalist, Jason Florio
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Hard Copy: VQR – Portraits and boat rescues from the Mediterranean Sea – Images by Jason Florio
Part of the power of these portraits lies in context, in learning who the migrants are, and how, amid such wretched circumstances, a democratic mix of citizens emerges—a melting pot of nationalities and ethnicities, of classes and educations. “It was surreal to see these women in their delicate scarves and fancy handbags,” Florio recalls.Continue reading “Hard Copy: VQR – Portraits and boat rescues from the Mediterranean Sea – Images by Jason Florio”
