Florio’s camera bag contents – documenting the search & rescue mission, in the Aegean Sea.

  The above image was taken by Jason Florio, whilst onboard the MOAS Responder search and rescue boat, currently in the Aegean Sea – for Battleface Insurance: ‘#personplacethings’ 

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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 themContinue reading “Wednesday Photo: Bangladeshi and Pakistani migrants in the lower decks of an overcrowded people-smuggling fishing boat”

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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 ofContinue reading “PRESS: ‘Portraits of a Rescue on the Mediterranean’ images by Jason Florio – VQR”

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