1. 15 Oct


    Crikey…we did it! You did it!! Kickstarter success! We can’t thank everyone enough for all the support and encouragement over these last months, including ‘An Exchange’ for Jason Florio’s fine art photo prints (still running on the River Gambia Expedition blog by the way, so it’s not too late!) and on Kickstarter. It’s our last day before we fly down to West Africa and lots of running around (nothing new there, then), to begin the River Gambia Expedition proper. We’ll post more updates later…soon…once we can breathe again BIG LOVE and gratitude to everyone…we are truly humbled. Jason & Helen Florio x Image: Florio & H – ‘A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush – a 930km African odyssey’ 2009 The Gambia, West Africa

    Crikey…we did it! You did it!! Kickstarter success!

    We can’t thank everyone enough for all the support and encouragement over these last months, including ‘An Exchange’ for Jason Florio’s fine art photo prints (still running on the River Gambia Expedition blog by the way, so it’s not too late!) and on Kickstarter.

    It’s our last day before we fly down to West Africa and lots of running around (nothing new there, then), to begin the River Gambia Expedition proper. We’ll post more updates later…soon…once we can breathe again ;)

    BIG LOVE and gratitude to everyone…we are truly humbled.
    Jason & Helen Florio x

    Image: Florio & H – ‘A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush – a 930km African odyssey’ 2009 The Gambia, West Africa

     

  2. 2 May


    ‘Your Experience’ Magazine - Matt Smith and the guys over at Gambia Experience/Serenity Holidays - have used one of my photo’s, from our 930km walk, in their May 2012 edition of the magazine. Image © Helen Jones-Florio 2009 Kunta Kinteh Island (formally, James Island), The Gambia, West Africa http://930kmafricanodyssey.tumblr.com/post/2313060104/image-by-florio-2009-james-island-a-former

    ‘Your Experience’ Magazine - Matt Smith and the guys over at Gambia Experience/Serenity Holidays - have used one of my photo’s, from our 930km walk, in their May 2012 edition of the magazine.

    Image © Helen Jones-Florio 2009

    Kunta Kinteh Island (formally, James Island), The Gambia, West Africa

    http://930kmafricanodyssey.tumblr.com/post/2313060104/image-by-florio-2009-james-island-a-former

     

  3. 16 Apr


    Random road shots: The Alkalo (village chief), Dam Sallah, and the village elders come to meet the team - Kerr Sat Maram, The Gambia, West Africa Image © Jason Florio A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey

    Random road shots: The Alkalo (village chief), Dam Sallah, and the village elders come to meet the team - Kerr Sat Maram, The Gambia, West Africa

    Image © Jason Florio

    A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey

     

  4. 12 Apr


    I’m in the middle of writing the book (long overdue!) based on A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - our 930km African odyssey - and I’m almost at the end of our journey. The last day was a particularly tough one - the cart wheel coming off three times was only part of a nightmare of an extremely long and frustrating day. Here is Adama, the mechanic from Makasutu Culture Forest, doing his best to secure the wheelback onto to the cart again so that we can make the remaining few miles home. Janneh, Samba, Momadou and myself (Flo is taking the photo - heavy work, holding that camera, eh, Flo) transfer our gear, from the cart to the truck, to lighten the load, in an effort to move faster on the last leg of the walk…wishful thinking. More on the book soon… Image © Jason Florio - Serrekunda, The Gambia

    I’m in the middle of writing the book (long overdue!) based on A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - our 930km African odyssey - and I’m almost at the end of our journey. The last day was a particularly tough one - the cart wheel coming off three times was only part of a nightmare of an extremely long and frustrating day.

    Here is Adama, the mechanic from Makasutu Culture Forest, doing his best to secure the wheelback onto to the cart again so that we can make the remaining few miles home. Janneh, Samba, Momadou and myself (Flo is taking the photo - heavy work, holding that camera, eh, Flo) transfer our gear, from the cart to the truck, to lighten the load, in an effort to move faster on the last leg of the walk…wishful thinking.

    More on the book soon…

    Image © Jason Florio - Serrekunda, The Gambia

     

  5. 11 Apr


    Random road shots: Almost the end of the journey - Helen Jones-Florio on The Barra-Banjul Ferry - across the River Gambia Image © Jason Florio - A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey

    Random road shots: Almost the end of the journey - Helen Jones-Florio on The Barra-Banjul Ferry - across the River Gambia

    Image © Jason Florio - A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey

     

  6. 10 Mar


    NME - review: Guelewar Band of Banjul : Wollou ( Photostories by Jason Florio & Helen Jones ) Guelewar Band of Banjul : Wollou - video
    Photostories by Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio from a 930km Africa odyssey

    http://www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/u_wjGq

     

  7. 23 Jan


    From the archive: Salafo & Penda Bah - Mr Bah is a Marabout, holy man and farmer who we met and stayed with, in the tiny village of Tuba Dabbo, whilst on our 930km walk around The Gambia, West Africa. Image © Jason Florio, 2009  One of a series of award-winning portraits of village chiefs (‘Alkalos’) and elders from ‘A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey’

    From the archive: Salafo & Penda Bah - Mr Bah is a Marabout, holy man and farmer who we met and stayed with, in the tiny village of Tuba Dabbo, whilst on our 930km walk around The Gambia, West Africa.

    Image © Jason Florio, 2009 

    One of a series of award-winning portraits of village chiefs (‘Alkalos’) and elders from ‘A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey’

     

  8. 23 Jan


    Umbi Salla Tourey (the village chief’s mother) & Kanifana Tourey (the chief’s sister-in-law) - Balanghar Bental, The Gambia, West Africa From the award-winning series of portraits by Jason Florio

    Umbi Salla Tourey (the village chief’s mother) & Kanifana Tourey (the chief’s sister-in-law) - Balanghar Bental, The Gambia, West Africa

    From the award-winning series of portraits by Jason Florio

     

  9. 23 Jan


    Image © Jason Florio - from ‘Silafando - a gift to you on behalf of my journey’ - an award winning series of portraits of Gambian Village Chiefs (Alkalo’s) and Elders, taken whilst on the first ever circumnavigation of the small West African country, by foot - 930km - with three Gambians, two donkeys, and a cart. L-R: Alkalo, Dadi Bah of Tuba Dabo & Alkalo, Kenbugal Fye of Barra

    Image © Jason Florio - from ‘Silafando - a gift to you on behalf of my journey’ - an award winning series of portraits of Gambian Village Chiefs (Alkalo’s) and Elders, taken whilst on the first ever circumnavigation of the small West African country, by foot - 930km - with three Gambians, two donkeys, and a cart.

    L-R: Alkalo, Dadi Bah of Tuba Dabo & Alkalo, Kenbugal Fye of Barra

     

  10. 23 Jan


    Archive: Amazing Travel Stories.com - choose Helen’s piece about our 930km walk around The Gambia, West Africa, to feature on their site. Images by Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio See Florio’s award-winning portraits of village chiefs - ‘Alkalo’s’: http://www.floriophoto.com/#/projects/930km%20african%20odyssey/1/

    Archive: Amazing Travel Stories.com - choose Helen’s piece about our 930km walk around The Gambia, West Africa, to feature on their site.

    Images by Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio

    See Florio’s award-winning portraits of village chiefs - ‘Alkalo’s’:

    http://www.floriophoto.com/#/projects/930km%20african%20odyssey/1/