A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - Photostories by Jason Florio & Helen Jones

A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - Photostories by Jason Florio & Helen Jones http://adventuretravelblogs.com/700miles Expedition Photography & Road Stories from a 930km odyssey Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:51:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The new tumblr blog is up! ‘A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush’ Expedition (a 930km African Odyssey) blog is on the move! http://adventuretravelblogs.com/700miles/2010/08/15/working-on-a-new-blog-a-short-walk-in-the-gambian-bush-post-expedition-a-930km-african-odyssey/ http://adventuretravelblogs.com/700miles/2010/08/15/working-on-a-new-blog-a-short-walk-in-the-gambian-bush-post-expedition-a-930km-african-odyssey/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:39:17 +0000 Florio & Jones http://adventuretravelblogs.com/700miles/?p=1288

Fine art prints available to buy from photographer Jason Florio’s award winning majestic colour portraits of Gambian village chiefs (Alkalo’s) and elders from a 930km walk around the small West African country Tonkara Heruna – acting Alkalo of Souduwole village, The...

NYPhoto Festival Awards, 2010, Presenting the Winners Slide Show – Jason Florio gets Fine Art Series ‘Honorable Mention’ for his majestic and painterly portraits of Gambian village chiefs and elders from ‘A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush – a 930km odyssey’ NYPhoto Festival Awards 2010 – Presents the Winners Slide...

The Gambia blog – Matt Smith reviews Jason Florio’s Alkalo’s & village elders fine art colour portraits from his ‘930km African Odyssey’ series, The Gambia, West Africa Image: Florio-2009-The Gambia http://www.thegambiablog.co.uk/2010/04/jason-florios-gambia-photographs/ ‘Jason’s style is unique – his...

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Jason Florio’s sublime colour portraits of West African village chiefs (Alkalo’s) and elders in the Finalists for PDN Faces 2010 portrait photogaphy competition – winners to be announced on line this month and in the July 2010 PDN magazine! ...

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Jason Florio’s stunning colour portraits of Gambian village chiefs makes front cover or August edition of PDN magazine – hard copy and on-line digital http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/features/featured-in-print/e3ic193b6eacf48409b20577598ed0f9f3e They also feature more of the colour portraits inside,...

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‘Wobbly Productions’ Presents Jones filming Florio photographing the alkalo (village chief) of Kalaji village, The Gambia, West Africa – whilst on 930km walk around the country, 2009 Our first foray into filming our journey – hence the...

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Jason Florio gets an ‘Honourable Mention’ at the New York Photo Awards, 2010, Fine Art Series Category, for his beautiful colour portraits of the Gambian Alkalos, from A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush-930km odyssey. Wooohoooo!!!! Much to our complete delight, we found out a...

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Adventure Travel Magazine – interview Jones about ‘A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush – a 930km odyssey’ (plus the importance of teabags on the road!) – full feature online now Rosie Fuller at Adventure Travel Magazine, UK, interviewed yours truly...

Adventure Travel Magazine – ‘Gambian Gamble – a great African trek’ – an interview with Helen Jones (A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush expedition co-leader) http://www.atmagazine.co.uk/content/view/1550/147/ A small taster to the feature article in Adventure...

A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush……stunning fine art colour images from the expedition photographer (and co-leader), Jason Florio, are available to purchase All images on the site and more are available - ...

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Behind the scenes from A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush – a 930km (by foot!) odyssey, West Africa, 2009: r ‘n’ r, Jason Florio’s portraits with the alkalo’s, a slice of New York in The Gambia, messin’ around on the river, You Tube, a wife for a bike(?), road kill and more road stories from Jones Image: Jones-2009-Gambia Florio with the lovely Alkalo, Jare Sowe, in...

A Short Walk In The Gambian Bush Expedition, 2009 – afterthoughts, musings and striking new B&W and colour images (to come!) from Jason Florio (and the odd one from Jones just so we can get a few pics with Florio in them too!!) from our walk around the Gambia, West Africa Apologies for the delay in updating but we have been...

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Press releases and blog plugs, plus Interviews with the UK expedition leaders Thanks to all the guys at the Eden Project, Jenny...

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Louisa J Curtis ‘ChatterCorner’ for PDN/Photo District News (PhotoServe.com)- Interview with Jason Florio about his 930km African odyssey (by foot!) with Helen Jones Louisa Curtis interviews Florio: http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/photoserve/surveillance/e3i056525c4efa8dd6fabe4942af93c82bf For more about Louisa J...

PDN (Photo District News), NY, review Jason Florio’s images of village chiefs from ‘A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush’ (An African Adventure) and our blog gets a plug too! Image: Florio-2009-Gambia Alkalo Dam Sallah, Kerr Sait Maram, The...

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Adventure Travel Magazine, UK, interview Jones about A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush – a 930km African odyssey Images: Jones & Florio-2009-Gambia When we returned from the...

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