One of my favourite spots on this tiny island, a place of contemplation and reflection.
Sea splash – dawn and reflection, Mediterranean Sea, Malta
On-line hangout – ‘The Great Exodus: A Look at How the Migrant Crisis is Being Pictured in the Media’
‘The Reading The Pictures Salon is an on-line, real-time discussion between photojournalists, visual academics and other visual or subject experts… .’ Read more, and register for the hangout (Sunday 10th January 2015 – 11am-1pm EST/4pm-6pm GMT), on the RTP’s salon website.
The panel:
MichelleBogre The New School Parsons; AnneDemo Penn State University; AlixandraFazzinaPhotographer, NOOR; Jason Florio Freelance Photographer; ShaniOrgad London School of Economics and Political Science; GlennRuga Social Documentary Network; MichaelShawReading the Pictures; MODERATOR: CaraFinnegan
Florio will be joining in the discussion, from the Aegean Sea, where he is currently on another photo assignment, this time with MOAS’s new rescue boat, the Topaz Responder
Wednesday Photo: Bangladeshi and Pakistani migrants in the lower decks of an overcrowded people-smuggling fishing boat
‘In the fetid bowels the last of an estimated 200 people that were below deck on a fishing boat carrying 416, wait for the rescue team to evacuate them. Many of them were Bangladeshis, who had lived in Libya as skilled guest workers until the security situation made it untenable to remain, forcing them to take the only route possible where already over 1800 had died in the past 6 months in hopes of getting to safety.’ JASON FLORIO
Recently published, along with exclusive black and white portraits of rescued migrants and refugees, a 35-page feature, in VQR – Virginia Quarterly Review – Winter 2016 edition. See more of Florio’s images and read the full feature here.
PRESS: ‘Portraits of a Rescue on the Mediterranean’ images by Jason Florio – VQR
In doing so, with more than 100 subjects, Florio has created a humanizing counterpoint to the images that have dominated the narrative of the migration crisis so far. “I know it sounds cliché, but I felt these portraits were an effective way to find the individual in the whole mess. All the images of migrants we’ve seen are of chaotic hordes. I thought it was important to give them a space to represent themselves.”. Read the whole feature at VQR on-line
PHOTOS TELL STORIES - documentary | filmmaking | photography | people | travel 