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THE GAMBIA, WEST AFRICA
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On The Vodun Trail – Benin. Images ©Jason Florio
On the Vodun Trail – Vodun practitioners in Benin worship a pantheon of gods and lesser deities that inhabit objects ranging from stones to waterfalls. They believe that the spirits of their ancestors dwell among them, and they employ talismans, or “fetishes” like dried animal parts, for spiritual and physical rejuvenation as well as for protection against spells cast by malevolent sorcerers.
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“Le vodun is Africa. It is the faith of our ancestors,” I was told by Dagbo Hounon Houna II, the spiritual chief of vodun in Benin, where 20 percent of the population, or a million people, practice pure vodun and another 40 percent embrace a form that incorporates Christian iconography. A retired civil servant in his 50s, he received me in a rondavel, a circular hut, inside a compound on the outskirts of Ouidah…
Excerpt from: ‘On the Vodun Trail’ in Benin Published in The New York Times Words by Joshua Hammer and photographs by Jason Florio
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Media: Movable Beast – rhino relocation, Dodho Magazine
Rhino relocation, South Africa ‘Movable Beast’ – Dodho Magazine. Images © Jason Florio
Rhino relocation, South Africa – ‘I rode along on the first convoy operated by Rhinos Without Borders from Free State, South Africa, to the Okavango Delta – a 1500km journey with 15 rhinos– this was the largest transportation of rhinos ever attempted. The rhinos were owned by a Free State farmer whose farm had come under attack by poachers on a number of occasions. He decided that it was safer for the his family and the rhinos to have them relocated by Rhinos Without Borders to Botswana…’ words/images ©Jason Florio / Dodho Magazine.
Rhino Relocation South Africa
Rhino relocation, South Africa ‘Movable Beast’ – Dodho Magazine. Images © Jason Florio
The original – full – feature is available to view on Jason Florio’s website, from the 1500km journey, in September 2017, whilst on assignment for Smithsonian Magazine, with the writer, Todd Pitock.
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‘Gambia – Victims, and Resisters of a Regime‘
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20 years of documentary photography by Jason Florio, The Gambia, West Africa
Instagram – a montage of images © Jason Florio, The Gambia, West Africa
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The Gambia Jason Florio documentary photography – all rights reserved. Spanning over twenty years of documentary photography and multimedia, in the small West African country. For image licensing, please contact here. All images, from assignments around the globe, floriophoto.com.
Exclusive images from inside the notorious Mile 2 Prison, the Gambia
‘My 5-Star hotel’ as the prison was called by the defeated former Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh, whose autocratic rule lasted for 22 years.
A prisoner shouts from the window of his cell, Mile 2 Prison, The Gambia, West Africa ©Jason Florio
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A prisoner shouts from the window of his cell, Mile 2 Prison, The Gambia, West Africa ©Jason Florio
‘Gambia – Victims, and Resisters of a Regime’
#Portraits4PositiveChange
Gambia Victims and Resisters of a Regime – Portraits4PositiveChange ©Jason Florio, the Gambia
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Currently working on a long-term portrait series ‘Gambia – Victims and Resisters of a Regime‘, with Helen Jones-Florio.
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Jason Florio with Yusupha Mbye – making #Portraits4PositiveChange, the Gambia – image © Helen Jones-Florio.
20 years of documentary photography
by Jason Florio, in The Gambia
#GambiaHasDecided
President-elect, Adama Barrow, of The Gambia, Jan 2017 ©Jason Florio.
Masses celebrate the inauguration of President Adama Barrow, after the 22-year dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh ©Jason Florio.
Ex-President of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, 2014, Roots Homecoming Festival © Jason Florio/Getty Images.
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‘We never Gave up – Stories of Courage in Gambia’
#GambiaHasDecided- still from ‘We never Gave up – Stories of Courage in Gambia’ / Vimeo.
River Gambia Expedition
20 years of documentary photography
by Jason Florio, in The Gambia
‘Makasutu’
‘Abdou with Rescued Crocodile’ fine art photography prints © Jason Florio
‘Silafando’
”Silafando” portraits of village chiefs and elders, The Gambia, West Africa © Jason Florio / ‘A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush’ Expedition.
‘River Gambia’
West African men punt a raft carrying a water pump, River Gambia, Senegal © Jason Florio / River Gambia Expedition.
Humanitarian/NGO Photography – West Africa
Humanitarian/NGO photography ©Jason Florio, West Africa
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Jason Florio filming a victim of the Jammeh regime © Helen Jones-Florio.
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Row #1 – 21/01/2017 supporters of the defeated President, Yahya Jammeh, at Banjul International Airport, congregate to watch the departure of Jammeh for exile in Equatorial Guinea, after 22- years of autocratic rule.
Row #2 – 03/2017 Inside the notorious Mile 2 Prison, The Gambia
Row #3 – 2016-ongoing – portraits of the victims and resisters of the Jammeh regime
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