‘River Gambia Expedition – 1044km source-sea African odyssey’ – footage © Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio From the source of the River Gambia, in the Fouta Djallon Highlands of Guinea, into Senegal, and onto The Gambia, West Africa, to the Atlantic Ocean’ (2012-2013) – See/read more at River Gambia Expedition Related: ‘A ShortContinue reading “Looking back: River Gambia Expedition – 1044km source-sea African odyssey (youtube)”
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‘Makasutu’ – “Powerful, penetrating, beautiful and stunning B&W portraits…” by Jason Florio
“With little command of the local language, I could only but ask my subjects to stand and look directly into the lens. With little direction on my part, I found that the subjects in front of the camera would become silently quizzical of themselves and how they wanted to be portrayed.” Jason Florio –Continue reading “‘Makasutu’ – “Powerful, penetrating, beautiful and stunning B&W portraits…” by Jason Florio”
Archives: Blackout Portraits by Jason Florio
Blackout History ‘In the mid-1940’s as the German’s blitzed London, my grandmother and her neighbors used clothes to blackout the light emitting from their windows so as not to guide the Luftwaffe on their deadly mission…’ In the mid-90’s, unbeknown to him at the time, Jason Florio began to use the very sameContinue reading “Archives: Blackout Portraits by Jason Florio”
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