visual story telling & education
Check out the ‘Photos Tell Stories – photographs of The Gambia by Gambians’ exhibition opening night on GRTS, at Alliance Française, The Gambia, West Africa. And, for those who can – and who haven’t yet made it down to AF – sixty prints, from our young photography students, will be exhibited until Saturday 31st May, 2014.
Thanks for stopping by. More news coming soon.
The Florios – Helen & Jason
Student: Asmau M. Jallow, Farafenni, The Gambia, West Africa – ‘Photos Tell Stories: teaching photography – a visual language‘ with Jason Florio and Helen Jones-Florio.
‘Photographs of The Gambia by Gambians‘ – 60 prints – is on exhibit at Alliance Française, Banjul, until Saturday 31st May, 2014.
To see more, please click on ‘students work‘.
We’ll be adding more photos, from our young Gambian photography students, over the coming weeks.
The Florios – Helen & Jason
Many thanks to Nfamara Camera – a journalist from Gambia’s Voice newspaper – for coming along to the ‘Photos Tell Stories – photographs of The Gambia by Gambians‘ exhibition opening night on Friday 15th May, at Alliance Française. It’s great to have such positive national press coverage, to showcase our PTS’s workshops students photography.
One for the weekend – an uplifting image, from one of the sixty prints we have on exhibit at AF, until May 31st, 2014 – by Lucy Njoku, Kartong village Photos Tell Stories photography workshop:
Please check out ‘Students Work‘ to see images from all the Gambia photography workshops we taught, courtesy of the US Embassy, Banjul.
More news coming soon.
The Florios – Helen & Jason
GRTS (Gambia Radio & TV) coverage of the exhibition opening night
After a very successful opening night, last Friday, at Alliance Française – of ‘Photos Tell Stories – photographs of The Gambia by Gambians‘ – we have started to receive some serious interest, from those who attended, in purchasing the students prints . We announced on the opening night that all sixty in the exhibit are available to buy. All proceeds from sales, minus the printing cost, will go directly to the individual student.
This is such an exciting prospect, for the students – along with having their work recognised and appreciated, in the exhibition – as it adds value to their work, which is part of what Jason brought into the Photos Tell Stories workshops, all those weeks ago. He wanted the students to realise that if they worked hard and produced great work, the potential is there for them to sell it – as he does his own work – whether to media publications or private collectors of photography.
Judging from the public’s reaction at the opening, and the subsequent print purchase requests, I think the students have proved that they are more than capable; considering 99% of them were beginners to the world of photography.
‘Thank you so much and I am very happy. I saw your post on youtube (TV coverage of the exhibition opening night-48 secs in) and it’s just awesome. We are grateful of you, your husband Jason and the American Embassy for promoting photography in the Gambia. It has raise awareness about what photography really meant. Now i can use photos to tell stories even without put any description on it’ Photos Tell Stories workshop student, Abdoulie, Silicon Institute, Soma, The Gambia, West Africa.
We also just got word that Africa Geographic are interested in featuring the Gambian students work, in their on-line magazine, in the coming months. More news on that as and when it comes in.
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Hopefully, we’ll be posting more exciting news about more print sales soon!
The Florios – Helen & Jason
