Over the weekend, we made our way down to Kartong – the last village before the border of the Casamance – Southern Senegal, to stay with old friends, Maurice and Geri, at their eco lodge, Sandele. The main purpose of our visit was to interview LJ – an ex- local bush meat hunter, whoContinue reading “The hunter turned conservationist – protecting sea turtles in The Gambia, West Africa”
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Gambia is Good (GIG)! locally grown vegetables…and fresh coffee (incoming!)
We stopped by the Gambia is Good grocery store and café yesterday, to admire their new signage, and to say ‘esama‘ (good morning) to the staff. On entering the store, we were very pleasantly surprised to see one of Florio’s images from an assignment we worked on for NGO, Concern Universal, here in TheContinue reading “Gambia is Good (GIG)! locally grown vegetables…and fresh coffee (incoming!)”
New photo project: Masquerades, The (#ebolafree) Gambia, West Africa
Now that we are back in The Gambia, we’ll be continuing with a photography project, based on the traditional masquerades of this region of West Africa. Despite the Gambia being a predominantly Muslim country, the animist fuelled masquerade ceremonies pre-date the arrival of Islam and are still tolerated and practiced around the country. Animism is anContinue reading “New photo project: Masquerades, The (#ebolafree) Gambia, West Africa”
The River Gambia meets the East River, NYC – a floating photographic exhibition
At Photoville, NYC, 2013, we exhibited Jason Florio’s ‘River Gambia‘ body of work – taken whilst we were on the ‘River Gambia Expedition – 1044km source-sea African odyssey‘. So, we were very excited when, earlier this year, the organizers of PV – United Photo Industries – approached us to see if we would like toContinue reading “The River Gambia meets the East River, NYC – a floating photographic exhibition”
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