Gaya Art Café, The Gambia, West Africa – opening Friday 3rd April, 2015, 3-6pm. Everyone is welcome. ‘Silafando – a gift to you on behalf of my journey‘ – award-winning portraits of Gambian village chiefs and elders, by Jason Florio, taken whilst on ‘A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush – a 930km AfricanContinue reading “Photo exhibition: ‘Silafando’ award-winning portraits of Gambian chiefs and elders by Jason Florio”
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Recycling plastic: The Kankurang masquerade – ‘Coming of Age’ ceremony, The Gambia. Image © Jason Florio
To read more about the machete wielding Kankurang, and why this particular Mandinka masquerade was on the beach – made from recycled plastic rice sacks – in The Gambia, West Africa, please see previous post.
Instagram: Kankurang – traditional masquerade, The Gambia, West Africa
Walking along the beach, near Brufut, on Sunday, Jason and I happened across a Mandinka initiation ‘Coming of Age‘ ceremony – a traditional rite of passage. Three young boys had been brought to the beach, to be ceremonially washed by older boys, former initiates, as part of the final stages of their circumcisionContinue reading “Instagram: Kankurang – traditional masquerade, The Gambia, West Africa”
Press: Jason Florio in Lagos, Nigeria, for Bloomberg Markets
March 2015 Press Images © Jason Florio – for Bloomberg Markets (photo agent: Redux Pictures, NYC). Read the feature here – words by Gavin Serkin
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