Friday photo: Gambian woman at the market, Farafenni, The Gambia, West Africa

Image © Mamlie Touray
Image © Mamlie Touray

 

To see more great work from our Photos Tell Stories photography workshop students, from The Gambia, please click here. And, to see photographer and tutor, Jason Florio, at work with the students, please check out our ‘Behind-the-Scenes‘ page.

More news about the forthcoming exhibition of the students work coming soon.

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Photos Tell Stories: teaching photography – a visual language‘ In partnership with the US Embassy, Banjul

Exhibition venue for ‘Photos Tell Stories’ is confirmed – Alliance Française, The Gambia, West Africa

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Photos Tell Stories: tutor and photographer, Jason Florio, and workshop producer, Helen Jones-Florio

We met recently with Le Directeur of Alliance Française, here in The Gambia, to check out the center as a potential venue for the Photos Tell Stories exhibition. And, we were so excited to find that it fits our needs perfectly, we (heavily) penciled in a date for the opening night: Friday 16th May, 2014!

On the opening night, we will be exhibiting printed work – thanks to AdormaPix, NYC – from each and every one of our Gambian students, from all of the workshops we taught here, in The Gambia, earlier this year. We will also be using the centers large screen, in their amphitheater, to project a wider range of the students work – here is just a taster of the excellent images, produced by the students:

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Also, included in the opening night projections, will be PTS’s tutor and photographer, Jason Florio’s, images from our two West Africa expeditions: ‘River Gambia Expedition‘ and ‘A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush‘, and his other work from a 12 year portraiture project – ‘Makasutu – mecca in the forest‘, taken here in The Gambia.

In the foyer, we’ll be screening the ‘River Gambia’ short film – taken whilst on the River Gambia Expedition – 1044km source-sea African odyssey, 2012-13

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Youtube – ‘River Gambia‘ © Jason Florio and Helen Jones-Florio

 

The printed exhibit will run at Alliance Francaise for two weeks, after the opening night, until the end of May.

As always, immense thanks to Josh Shrager, and all at the US Embassy, Banjul – our major partners for ‘Photos Tell Stories’ – their support has been (is!) invaluable.

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More news coming soon!

The Florios – Helen & Jason

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PTS’s logo tote bags by ‘Jekkah – African inspired clothing’ made in Gambia

 

 

 

Photos Tell Stories tutor and photographer, Jason Florio – nominated for the National Magazine Awards, 2014, USA

We were thrilled to get the news yesterday that Jason FlorioPhotos Tell Stories tutor and photographer – is a finalist for the National Magazine Awards, in the US, for his images from our ‘River Gambia Expedition – 1000km source-sea African odyssey‘; which were featured in the Virginia Quarterly Review : ‘Life on the River Gambia

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Image © Jason Florio – boys playing by the river – ‘River Gambia’
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Image © Jason Florio – Gold miners in South East Senegal : ‘River Gambia’

 

Well done, Jason!

To read about our tales from the River Gambia journey, please click here. And, to see the whole series of images, check out floriophoto.com

More news on the upcoming exhibition for the Photos Tell Stories Gambian workshop students coming soon. Feel to subscribe – in the left hand column – or ‘like’ the PTS’s Facebook page

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Photos Tell Storiesteaching photography – a visual language‘ with Jason Florio and Helen Jones-Florio

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