The Gambia Blog

We’ve featured Jason Florio’s brilliant Gambia photography on the blog before now, and followed closely the progress of the walk he undertook with Helen Jones and the 700Miles team on their epic circumnavigation of The Gambia back in November and December of last year.

Well now the fruits of that walk are starting to appear – aside from calf muscles the size of small principality, there is a new suite of photographs taken during the walk now available to view on Jason’s site. And as you can see from the examples below there are some dazzling images. Jason’s style is unique – his use of the black screen has at once something of a distancing effect, yet the images become like naked singularities, events almost. They’re quite something. The first picture below is of Acting Alkalo Herouna Tonkara from Suduwole. He’s a member of the Serra Houle tribe who are renowned in the area as great traders. The couple are Salafo & Penda Bah from Tuba Dabbo. Mr Bah is a marabout and a cattle farmer. You can view the complete set here. (And you can also see their Flickr photos and follow the guys on Twitter too. Plus, don’t forget you can follow us on Flickr, Twitter and Facebook as well!)

Acting Alkalo Herouna Tonkara. Image by Jason Florio

Salafo & Penda Bah from Tuba Dabbo. Image by Jason Florio