MOAS – Migrant Offshore Aid Station, based in Malta: dedicated to preventing loss of life at sea by providing assistance to migrants who find themselves in distress while crossing the Mediterranean Sea in unsafe vessels… Read more about the incredible work that MOAS do here. Last year, the charity helped to save 3,000 migrantsContinue reading “Photographer, Jason Florio, flies into Malta, preparing to join MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station)”
Category Archives: DOCUMENTARY
Youtube: Directing Gambian chiefs and corralling kids! The photo exhibition is extended
We are delighted to announce that we have been asked to extend the original closing date, 30th April, 2015, of the ‘Silafando’ exhibition, at Gaya Art Café, here in The Gambia, until the middle of May. So, for those of you who missed it, then the exhibition is open for public viewing – with theContinue reading “Youtube: Directing Gambian chiefs and corralling kids! The photo exhibition is extended”
Meeting the Gambian village chiefs – the Alkalo’s – see their portraits on exhibition for the first time in The Gambia
Something for the weekend… If you are new to the story, in short, in 2009, photographer, Jason Florio, myself, and three Gambian team mates, two donkeys and a cart to carry camera and camping equipment, walked around the small West African country of The Gambia – ‘A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush –Continue reading “Meeting the Gambian village chiefs – the Alkalo’s – see their portraits on exhibition for the first time in The Gambia”
Photo of the Day: construction workers on Lake Kivu barge, Rwanda – by Jason Florio
Lake Kivu’s Great Gas Gamble – Rwanda In a first-of-its-kind endeavor, electricity-starved Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are trying to get power from a lake—and avert catastrophe … . read the full feature here – by Jon W. Rosen/ Images © Jason Florio Press & published work
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