‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Al Gore book – Farmer, Poco Boch, Mexico – image © Jason Florio
‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Al Gore book – image © Jason Florio
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Photography Presentation: ‘River Gambia Source-to-Sea’ Jason Florio’s African odyssey. Avantech, Malta
Horses swimming across River Gambia © Jason Florio
‘River Gambia Source-to-Sea’
Jason Florio’s African Odyssey
Event: held by Avantech/Canon Malta
Date: September 5th, 2017
Time: 7.3opm-9.30pm*
Venue: Avantech, Avantech Building, Saint Julians Road, San Gwann, Malta – view map
Our lecturer for the evening will be Jason Florio, a freelance documentary photographer with a focus on under reported stories about people living on the margins of society and in places of conflict. His work has been recognized with a number of international awards including most recently, the Magnum Photography Award for photojournalism. He is a proud Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society. More details here
A group of West African men punt a raft carrying a water pump to irrigate banana plantations, River Gambia, Senegal © Jason Florio
Helen Jones-Florio/Jason Florio – River Gambia Expedition, Mandinaring Balong – photo by Ebou Jarju
Jason Florio will be talking us through how he and his wife, Helen Jones-Florio, made the first recorded circumnavigation of The Gambia, West Africa, by foot with two donkeys – a 930km expedition, to create a modern day photographic account of daily life in the country. Two years later they returned to West Africa and co-led the first recorded expedition of the River Gambia along its 1130km hippo infested course. More details here
*Registration is required. The course will be open to the first 30 people to register.
Jason Florio, Ebou Jarju, and Abdou Ndong, Bonto Pier, River Gambia Expedition © Helen Jones-Florio
@jasonflorio/Instagram
‘Silafando’ award-winning portraits of village chiefs and elders, The Gambia, West Africa © Jason Florio – taken whilst on a 930km walk
Dawn – leaving Khalaji, The Gambia, West Africa – A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush – 930km African Odyssey © Jason Florio
Working with NGO’s – images ©Jason Florio
Tomato farmer, Ghana – image © Jason Florio for NGO, United Purpose (Concern Universal)
Bangladeshi and Pakistani migrants wait to be evacuated from the fetid hold of a smuggler’s boat off the coast of Libya. © Jason Florio/MOAS, NGO. Photojournalism Series Winner, Magnum Photography Awards 2017.
Food Security – seed trials in Senegal to help increase peanut size and yield. Image ©Jason Florio for NGO, United Purpose
The Guardian: Photojournalism series winner – ‘Destination Europe‘ – British photographer Jason Florio’s picture shows Gambian and other West African migrants lying exhausted on the deck of a rescue ship after being saved from a packed rubber boat that was starting to sink off the coast of Libya
See more of Florio’s work with NGO’s on his website: floriophoto.com
Follow on Instagram: jasonflorio
UNICEF – Women & children, who fled Al Shabaab Islamists, wait in line at feeding centre, Mogadishu, Somalia © Jason Florio
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