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,… seeContinue reading “Yahya Jammeh herbal AIDS/HIV ‘cure’ – portraits © Jason Florio”
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The Gambia – Photographer/filmmaker, Jason Florio, making #Portraits4PositiveChange
‘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 GambianContinue reading “The Gambia – Photographer/filmmaker, Jason Florio, making #Portraits4PositiveChange”
Back in The Gambia, West Africa – to make more #Portraits4PositiveChange
‘Gambia, little Gambia…‘ we are back! Heading from the airport towards Bakau, with Buba Bah & Jason Florio Check out why we are back: ‘Gambia – Victims, and Resisters of a Regime’ #Portraits4PositiveChange BEING SOCIAL @JASONFLORIO /@FLORIOTRAVELS / @DOORS_FACADES_FLORIO / @FLORIO_GALLERY INSTAGRAM PHOTOSTELLSTORIES – FB @FLORIOPHOTONYC – TWITTER
GoFundMe: Gambia-Victims, and Resisters of a Regime – #Portraits4PositiveChange ©Jason Florio
GoFundMe: The Gambia – Victims, and Resister of a Regime To face the past, victims, and resisters, of the Jammeh regime come forward – #Portraits4PostiveChange ‘In a global political climate where authoritarian rule is on the rise – where autocratic leaders crush dissent, and opposition, with brutality and little or no regard for human rights – itContinue reading “GoFundMe: Gambia-Victims, and Resisters of a Regime – #Portraits4PositiveChange ©Jason Florio”