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Jason Florio – making #Portraits4PositiveChange, The Gambia

Photographer, Jason Florio, making #Portraits4PositiveChange, the Gambia, West Africa © Helen Jones-Florio
Photographer, Jason Florio, making #Portraits4PositiveChange, the Gambia, West Africa © Helen Jones-Florio.

 

‘Gambia – Victims, and Resisters of a Regime’ 

#Portraits4PositiveChange

 

From 1994 -2017 President Yahya Jammeh ruled the Gambia, West Africa, as his own personal fiefdom, crushing dissent, and opposition, with brutality.

His personal hit squad and intelligence agency carried out tortures, and assassinations with impunity – journalists were gunned down and disappeared, ministers were jailed, students shot in cold blood, and even his own brother and sister were murdered on his orders.

With Jammeh’s 2016 election defeat, he went into exile after a standoff with regional forces, and the victims of his regime started to come forward.

So far, over 1000 victims and their families have registered with the Gambia Centre for Human Rights Violations to share their stories and help build international support to bring Jammeh to justice

This is a work in progress in collaboration with the GCHRV

 

Portraits4PositiveChange, Gambia - Ami Bayo ©Jason Florio
Portrait of Ami Bayo, the Gambia ©Jason Florio.

 

See more from ‘Gambia – Victims and Resisters of a Regime’ by Jason Florio on his website floriophoto.com. Find out how you can be part of #Portraits4PositiveChange on our GoFundMe page.

Wishing you all a happy and peaceful 2019

Helen Jones-Florio & Jason Florio 

Jason Florio / Helen Jones-Florio, Essau, The Gambia. Image courtesy Madi Sonko
Essau, The Gambia. Image courtesy Madi Sonko, Dec 2018

 

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Posted byJason Florio & Helen Jones-FlorioJanuary 1, 2019Posted inDOCUMENTARY, HELEN JONES-FLORIO, JASON FLORIO PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOBLOG, PHOTOJOURNALISMTags:Amnesty International, Gambia Has Decided, Human Rights, New Gambia, portraits, President Adama Barrow, President Yahya Jammeh, TRAVEL, vimeo, West Africa, YOUTUBELeave a comment on Jason Florio – making #Portraits4PositiveChange, The Gambia

Yahya Jammeh herbal AIDS/HIV ‘cure’ – portraits © Jason Florio

Lamin Ceesay - took part in Yahya Jammeh AIDS/HIV herbal 'cure' trials, the Gambia - portrait ©Jason Florio
Lamin Ceesay – took part in Yahya Jammeh AIDS/HIV herbal ‘cure’ trials, the Gambia – portrait ©Jason Florio

 

Gambia – Victims and Resisters of a Regime

Lamin Ceesay was on of a number of HIV/AIDS patients coerced by former Gambian president, Yahya Jammeh, to stop taking their anti-retroviral drugs and be treated by him personally with his herbal HIV/AIDS ‘cure’. Jammeh’s treatment proved to be dangerous, and often fatal for many,… see more at floriophoto.com

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To find out more about this project, check out our GoFundMe page.

Jason Florio making #Portraits4PositiveChange, the Gambia ©Helen Jones-Florio.
Jason Florio making #Portraits4PositiveChange, the Gambia ©Helen Jones-Florio.

 

We are currently in the Gambia, West Africa, working on a long-term portrait series, ‘Gambia – Victims, and Resisters of a Regime‘, #Portraits4PositiveChange, through January 2019. I am available for assignments – please contact Jason here

More updates, coming soon

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Jason Florio / Helen Jones-Florio, Essau, The Gambia. Image courtesy Madi Sonko
Jason Florio / Helen Jones-Florio, Essau, The Gambia, Dec 2018. Image courtesy Madi Sonko

 

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Posted byJason Florio & Helen Jones-FlorioDecember 20, 2018Posted inHELEN JONES-FLORIO, JASON FLORIO PHOTOGRAPHY, PhotographyTags:Amnesty, DOCUMENTARY, Gambia Has Decided, humanitarian, multimedia, New Gambia, President Adama Barrow, President Yahya Jammeh, vimeo, YOUTUBELeave a comment on Yahya Jammeh herbal AIDS/HIV ‘cure’ – portraits © Jason Florio

Jason Florio Open Society Foundation – Instagram Takeover

Open Society Foundation Instagram Takeover – images ©Jason Florio 'Gambia-Victims and Resisters of a Regime
Open Society Foundation Instagram Takeover – images ©Jason Florio

 

Open Society Foundation Jason Florio – Instagram Takeover

‘Gambia – Victims and Resisters of a Regime’

 

‘Jason Florio shares his images from his ongoing series on citizens of the Gambia who were tortured under the regime of former President Yahya Jammeh, and who are now stepping forward and demanding justice.’  Open Society Foundation.

Jason Florio at work - making #Portraits4PositiveChange, #Gambia ©Helen Jones-Florio

 

December 2018 – we are back in the Gambia, West Africa. Cell phones on silent please! Jason Florio at work – making #Portraits4PositiveChange.

To read more about why we are doing this project – GoFundMe. And, see more from this ongoing series at floriophoto.com.

For assignments in the region, please  contact us here or via Jason’s website

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Posted byJason Florio & Helen Jones-FlorioDecember 15, 2018Posted inDOCUMENTARY, HELEN JONES-FLORIO, JASON FLORIO PHOTOGRAPHY, PhotographyTags:Gambia Has Decided, GoFundMe, Human Rights, instagram, New Gambia, open society foundation, President Adama Barrow, River Gambia, vimeo, YOUTUBELeave a comment on Jason Florio Open Society Foundation – Instagram Takeover

The Gambia – Photographer/filmmaker, Jason Florio, making #Portraits4PositiveChange

Jason Florio, with Yusepha Mbye, who was shot in the back by security forces in 2000 student protest - making #Portraits4PositiveChange #Gambia - image, Gambia © Helen Jones-Florio
Jason Florio – making #Portraits4PositiveChange, the Gambia – image, Gambia © Helen Jones-Florio

 

‘Gambia – Victims, and Resisters of a Regime’
#portraits4positivechange

On location, in The Gambia: Yesterday Jason Florio photographed Yusepha, who was shot in the back by the Yahya Jammeh regime’s security forces, during a peaceful student protest in April 2000. He is paralyzed from the neck down. He was just 18 years old.

The April 2000 Gambian student massacre was the killing of 14 people (and one accidental death) by Gambian police officers and soldiers on the 10 April 2000 at a student protest in Banjul, the Gambia.

Please check out our GoFundMe page for more info on this project, or to donate/share.

 

Jugana Susso, was arrested and detained during a peaceful demonstration by President Jammeh's feared security services. She was tortured and beaten so badly on her legs she has problems walking even around her own home ©Jason Florio
Jugana Susso, was arrested and detained during a peaceful demonstration by President Jammeh’s feared security services ©Jason Florio

December 2018-January 2019

We will be in The Gambia, West Africa, end of November, and available for assignments in the region 

Please  contact us here or via Jason’s website

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