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Jason Florio, FRGS (Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society, London) photographs and writes for numerous publications including New York Times, Newsweek and The Independent on Sunday. His photography has been solo exhibited and won numerous international awards, and has been acquired by a number of museums.
I first came across Jason's work when together with his wife Helen, he made two West Africa expeditions to produce extensive bodies of photographic, written and video material. In 2009 when they made the first recorded circumnavigation of The Gambia by foot – a 930km journey, the resulting images were outstanding and I've been a fan ever since.
In 2012/13 they followed this with the first recorded expedition to document the communities along the 1130km course of River Gambia.
And in 2014, sponsored by the US Embassy, Banjul, they taught a series of ‘Photos Tell Stories' workshops to Gambian students, introducing photography as a way to document and share their lives as part of a cultural exchange.
Between the 'harder' travels, Jason enjoys working on travel stories for publications including Sunday Times Travel and Afar, where he is more often than not gets to sleep between crisp white sheets.
To see more of Jason’s work,
please visit his website at floriophoto.com
and his blog PhotosTellStories.org
Jason Florio, an award-winning, New York based, photographer whose work has focused on under-reported stories on people living on the margins of society and in places of conflict.
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Photographs on pages 16 to 29 were all taken by Jason Florio in Senegal, Libya, Yemen, Beirut, India and The Gambia.