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Looking back: young boy leaves the gold mines of Senegal, to cross the River Gambia, after a long days work

‘The section from Kedougou to Mako is known as ‘gold country’. For centuries the land on either side of the river has been continually pock marked by thousands of narrow mine shafts. We were warned about camping in these lawless areas, filled with anxious men and women, eyes bent on gold and not toContinue reading “Looking back: young boy leaves the gold mines of Senegal, to cross the River Gambia, after a long days work”

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Photography assignments in West Africa – what the Florios have been up to lately

Since completely the inaugural ‘Photos Tell Stories: teaching photography – a visual language‘ workshops, in The Gambia, West Africa, Jason Florio and I have worked on a number of diverse assignments, here in West Africa – a couple of them together, just over the border into the Casamance, Southern Senegal, for NGO Concern Universal, andContinue reading “Photography assignments in West Africa – what the Florios have been up to lately”

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Press: ‘US photographers hold photo exhibition’ – Daily Observer, The Gambia, West Africa

To read the full article, please click here or on the above image Great to see a review of the Photos Tells Stories exhibition in Gambia’s Daily Observer newspaper. It’s just a shame that they didn’t use any of our Gambian students images, which we sent to them. However, you can see them byContinue reading “Press: ‘US photographers hold photo exhibition’ – Daily Observer, The Gambia, West Africa”