Florio’s full-length feature for The Independent on Sunday. Its not the full version (he wrote around 3,000+ words for the 1,500 piece they commissioned him for! Maybe we’ll put the full version on here soon!).
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/africa/you-people-cannot-walk-you-only-move-in-cars-1920897.html
Janneh (leading Neil), Momadou &Paddy, Jones – arriving at lumo to stock up on supplies (weekly market), The Gambia
Image:Florio-2009-Gambia
Our first experiment with putting footage from the expedition on You Tube. Its all the rage apparently We have much more so watch this space.
Movie clip 1: Arriving at Sambel Kunda – home of The Gambia Horse & Donkey Trust (and home to Paddy, Neil and Hadley -our faithful road-hardy donkeys). This was [...]
We’ll be sending out Florio’s beautiful prints over the next couple of days. Still waiting, however, to hear from some of you as to your preferred choice of print from the expedition.
As always, we’d like to thank everyone for donating to the cause. We definitely couldn’t have done any of this without your support. We [...]
What an honour it was to meet Her Excellency Mrs Isatou Njie-Saidy, the Vice President of The Gambia, today at their office in the UN Mission up on 2nd Ave, New York, along with her delegation of aides and colleagues, beautifully and immaculately attired in traditional dress. As always, we felt under-dressed and positively drab [...]
http://www.atmagazine.co.uk/content/view/1550/147/
A small taster to the feature article in Adventure Travel Magazine, UK, where Jones is interviewed about the journey. The hard copy March issue mag is on the shelves now at all reputable book stores. The full interview will be on their website in the next month or so.
Image taken from Jason Florio’s book of [...]
All images on the site and more are available - exclusive, limited edition, prints from the expedition by award-winning photojournalist, Jason Florio (www.floriophoto.com).
If you would like to receive more information on purchasing prints then please email us: 700miles@floriophoto.com
Check out our most recent press from Adventure Travel Magazine
http://www.atmagazine.co.uk/content/view/1550/147/
We have had the most amazing response to our fund-raising for Gardens for Life – an Eden Project, UK, based charity, to help raise money for Gambian school kids to build their gardens and we are eternally grateful for that. However, this is a on-going project and and we also thank The Eden Project, Gambia [...]
Just three of around 35 stunning portraits that Florio took of the Alkalo’s – heads of the villages – whilst on the Short Walk expedition in The Gambia. If you want to see them in all their glory, then larger images will be available to view on his website shortly www.floriophoto.com
More to come so [...]
Image: Jason Florio – The Gambia – 2009
A million thanks goes out to everyone who has donated so far. You have all helped so much. Even though we have successfully completed our walk around The Gambia, we will continuje to try and raise as much awareness and funds for the school kids and their Gardens [...]
Apologies for the delay in updating but we have been unable to get a good connection recently. Florio and I are trawling through hundreds of images from our walk around The Gambia, trying desperately to decide which to put up! There are so many amazing ones to choose from – each telling their own story. Its [...]
