Oct 2, 2013: ‘River Gambia Expedition – 1044km source-sea African odyssey‘ One of our early forays into filmmaking. A short film – edited by Jason Florio / filmed by Jason Florio and Helen Jones-Florio – about our 2012-13 expedition to find the source of the River Gambia in the Fouta Djallon Highlands of Guinea, West Africa. Along withContinue reading “WATCH: RIVER GAMBIA EXPEDITION – 1044km source-sea African odyssey”
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Photo of the Day: Young boy in his canoe on the River Gambia, Senegal. Image by Jason Florio
River Gambia – source-to-sea December 2012 – January 2013 – My wife, Helen Jones-Florio, and I co-led the first recorded source-to-sea expedition by canoe along the 1130km length of River Gambia, from its humble source in the remote highlands of Guinea, through Senegal and into The Gambia where it widens to nearly 14km and exitsContinue reading “Photo of the Day: Young boy in his canoe on the River Gambia, Senegal. Image by Jason Florio”
Press: El Pais – ‘Tribal Royalty’. Portraits of Gambian Chiefs and Elders by Jason Florio
El Pais – Portraits of Gambian village chiefs, and elders ©Jason Florio. The formal portraits were taken whilst on the first fully documented circumnavigation, entirely by foot, of the small West African country (930km), in 2009, with Helen Jones-Florio
#TBT: Moto-Taxi boys – Labé’s got style, Guinea-Conakry, West Africa
December 2012: ‘Labé, the capital of the Fouta Djallon, Guinea-Conakry, is motorcycle city. The streets are overrun with thousands of cheap Chinese-manufactured bikes and ‘moto- taxis’ are the way to travel, carrying a minimum of 2-3 passengers. As we walked around the town, we constantly darted out of the way as a ‘moto’ zoomed towardsContinue reading “#TBT: Moto-Taxi boys – Labé’s got style, Guinea-Conakry, West Africa”
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