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Night time photography projections of ‘Photos Tell Stories’ workshop students images, The Gambia, West Africa

After each of our 1-day ‘Photos Tell Stories: teaching photography – a visual language‘ workshops, Jason Florio (PTS’s photographer and tutor) would make an edit of the students work. When darkness fell, we would then project their images onto a huge inflatable, cinema-sized, screen – thanks to our main partners, the U.S. Embassy, Banjul –Continue reading “Night time photography projections of ‘Photos Tell Stories’ workshop students images, The Gambia, West Africa”

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Gambian ‘Photos Tell Stories’ photography workshop students receive their certificates

A selection of images of the ‘Photos Tell Stories‘ school students, from various towns and villages around The Gambia, West Africa, showing off their Certificates of Attendance – which each student received after completion of their photography workshop with photographer and tutor, Jason Florio, and producer, Helen Jones-Florio. Huge thanks to Josh Shrager, Papa Njie, andContinue reading “Gambian ‘Photos Tell Stories’ photography workshop students receive their certificates”

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Press: ‘Source to Sea’ – The New Yorker Photo Booth features Jason Florio’s River Gambia images

We are honored to have Jason Florio’s – Photos Tell Stories tutor and photographer – body of work from the ‘River Gambia Expedition – 1044km source-sea African odyssey‘ in The New Yorker Photo Booth Magazine. Big thanks to Amber Terranova for asking to feature Jason’s work. Amber is also one of our contributing photographers –Continue reading “Press: ‘Source to Sea’ – The New Yorker Photo Booth features Jason Florio’s River Gambia images”

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‘HOME’ work assignment for our Gambian photography workshop students

Inspired by a slideshow projection, in the classroom, of images of ‘Home’ from our contributing professional photographers (including Amy Toensing, Ben Lowy, Henry Jacobson, Manjari Sharma, Ryan Heffernan, Oskar Landi), the ‘Photos Tell Stories‘ students, from the Kombo area of The Gambia, were given their main assignment from photographer and tutor, Jason Florio: take theContinue reading “‘HOME’ work assignment for our Gambian photography workshop students”