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#Gambia - #Portraits4PositiveChange - Image ©Helen Jones-Florio: @jasonflorio making a portrait of Bintu, who was detained for five days, beaten and raped by three masked security officers at the Gambia Police Intervention Unit (PIU) HQ, after being arrested during a May 9th 2016 rally to demand the release of illegally detained protesters from previous rallies held on April 15th/16th, 2016. When asked if she would prefer that we keep her identity anonymous her adamant reply was “No, this was done to me, and I want justice…these men should be punished” From the series ‘Gambia - Victims and Resisters of a Regime’ @floriotravels/@florio_gallery _ A Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) began this month in The Gambia to investigate ex-president, Yahya Jammeh’s, 22-year authoritarian rule whereby mass human rights violations took place. A momentous, and historical, time for Gambia, and Gambians to be able to speak so freely once again. For the past two years, I have had the privilege of being able to photograph and record testimonies of victims, and resisters of the Jammeh regime. Bintu is just one of many… this is a work-in-progress. You can see more on my website: https://floriophoto.com/PORTRAITS/The-Gambia---victims-&-resisters---a-work-in-progress/1/caption _ If you would like to be part of #Portraits4PositiveChange, please check out https://www.gofundme.com/gambiavictims-of-a-regime (or use the link in my IG profile) _ _ _ #jasonflorio#gambia#jammeh2justice#westafrica#GambiaCentreforVictimsofHumanRightsViolations#portraits#YahyaJammeh#dictatorship#democracy#gambiahasdecided#victimsandresisters #victimsofjammeh #everydayafrica #helenjonesflorio#GambiaTRRC #humanrightsabuses@trrc_gambia #humanrights (at Banjul, Gambia) https://www.instagram.com/floriotravels/p/BsqUfFwA22V/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lzhwlxy7e7kb

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#Gambia - #Portraits4PositiveChange © @jasonflorio: Bintu was detained for five days, beaten and raped by three masked security officers at the Gambia Police Intervention Unit (PIU) HQ, after being arrested during a May 9th 2016 rally to demand the release of illegally detained protesters from previous rallies held on April 15th/16th, 2016. When asked if she would prefer that we keep her identity anonymous her adamant reply was “No, this was done to me, and I want justice…these men should be punished” From the series ‘Gambia - Victims and Resisters of a Regime’ @floriotravels/@florio_gallery _ A Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) began this month in The Gambia to investigate ex-president, Yahya Jammeh’s, 22-year authoritarian rule whereby mass human rights violations took place. A momentous, and historical, time for Gambia, and Gambians to be able to speak so freely once again. For the past two years, I have had the privilege of being able to photograph and record testimonies of victims, and resisters of the Jammeh regime. Bintu is just one of many… this is a work-in-progress. You can see more on my website: https://floriophoto.com/PORTRAITS/The-Gambia---victims-&-resisters---a-work-in-progress/1/caption _ If you would like to be part of #Portraits4PositiveChange, please check out https://www.gofundme.com/gambiavictims-of-a-regime (or use the link in my IG profile) _ _ _ #jasonflorio#gambia#jammeh2justice#westafrica#GambiaCentreforVictimsofHumanRightsViolations#portraits#YahyaJammeh#dictatorship#democracy#gambiahasdecided#victimsandresisters #victimsofjammeh #everydayafrica #helenjonesflorio#GambiaTRRC #humanrightsabuses@trrc_gambia #humanrights (at Banjul, Gambia) https://www.instagram.com/floriotravels/p/BsqUtzKArQH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p49mpb32v7pv

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Another one from our recent (and 2nd) exhibition in the Gambia - #Portraits4PositiveChange aka ‘Gambia-victims, and resisters - held at the British High Commissioners residence, Banjul ©Helen Jones-Florio: Lamin E.Gassama looks at the portrait by @jasonflorio of him with his grandmother, Mama Bass, holding a photography of his mother, Mariama Camara, and her granddaughter _ Mariama was a Presidential State House Officer. In 2011, she was murdered along with her husband, Alpha Jallow, at Hamza Barracks. She was shot, and he was strangled. Mama Bass said that before President Yahya Jammeh fled to Equatorial Guinea in 2017, some men in plain clothes came to their home and told them to be silent about the death of Mariama if Jammeh leaves the country. _ Exhibition portraits from the on-going collaboration, ‘Gambia - victims, and resisters’ by Jason Florio and Helen Jones-Florio (also @florio_gallery / @doors_facades_florio #StoriesBehindDoors). See more https://floriophoto.com/PORTRAITS/The-Gambia---victims-&-resisters---a-work-in-progress/1/caption _ _ _ _ _ _ #gambiatrrc#trrc_gambia#humanrights#gambiacentreforvictimsofhumanrightsviolations#truthandreconciliation#Gambia#portraits#documentary#victimsofjammeh#jammeh2justice#jasonfloriophotography#UKintheGambia#photographyexhibition#westafrica#NeverAgainGambia #helenjonesflorio (at Banjul, Gambia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByrlW7vA63E/?igshid=4u3b5kcehzbg

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The Gambia -witness testimonies at the TRRC: Lieutenant-Colonel Baboucar Sanyang makes his testimony before the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission about how soldiers and officers, who were executed on the 11th of November 1994, were buried.Thursday the 21st March 2019. _ Images (c) @jasonflorio, with Helen Jones-Florio, The Gambia, West Africa . 
 
 _ A Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) began in January 2019, in The Gambia, to investigate ex-president, Yahya Jammeh’s, 22-year authoritarian rule whereby mass human rights violations took place. A momentous, and historical, time for Gambia, and Gambians to be able to speak so freely once again. For the past two years, we have had the privilege of being able to photograph and film the testimonies of victims, and resisters of the Jammeh regime. ‘ Jason Florio, with Helen Jones-Florio (@floriotravels @doors_facades_florio #storiesbehinddoors) #Portraits4PositiveChange - See more about the project on the website https://floriophoto.com/PORTRAITS/The-Gambia---victims-&-resisters---a-work-in-progress/1/caption  _ _ _ _ #LieutenantColonelBaboucarSanyang#portraits#YahyaJammeh#dictatorship#democracy#gambiahasdecided#victimsandresisters#victimsofjammeh #documentary #everydayafrica#helenjonesflorio#GambiaTRRC @trrc_gambia #humanrights #thejunglers#visualstorytelling #photography#helenjonesflorio (at The Gambia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvtEW1Tgcfs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1advydewjvf3l

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The #Gambia - for the past 2 years We have been making portraits of victims, and resisters of the former 22-year dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh... @jasonflorio: Joy Coker Sonko was targeted by a Yahya Jammeh supporting police woman when she was only 14 years old, because her family were vocal supporters of the government opposition UDP party. She was dragged from her family home by the police beaten, her head smashed against a car, then detained in a cell without arrest for 4 days. _ Not long after Jammeh's 22-year long dictatorship ended, when he was voted out on December 2016, Joy met the police woman (who is still working on the Gambian police force) and she confronted her, no longer afraid, her about what she had done ‘Your time will come… there will be justice, now that Jammeh is not here to protect you…’. The policewoman looked at her, turned and walked away. | Part of an on-going body of work ‘Gambia - Victims and Resisters of a Regime’ - See more on my website https://floriophoto.com/PORTRAITS/The-Gambia---victims-&-resisters---a-work-in-progress/1/caption _ 'A Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) began in January 2019, in The Gambia, to investigate ex-president, Yahya Jammeh’s, 22-year authoritarian rule whereby mass human rights violations took place. A momentous, and historical, time for Gambia, and Gambians to be able to speak so freely once again. For the past two years, we have had the privilege of being able to photograph and film the testimonies of victims, and resisters of the Jammeh regime. ‘ Jason Florio, with Helen Jones-Florio (@floriotravels @doors_facades_florio #storiesbehinddoors) #Portraits4PositiveChange _ If you would like to be part of these #Portraits4PositiveChange, please check out https://www.gofundme.com/gambiavictims-of-a-regime (or use the link in our IG profile) _ _ _ #jasonflorio#jammeh2justice#westafrica#GambiaCentreforVictimsofHumanRightsViolations#portraits#YahyaJammeh#dictatorship#democracy#gambiahasdecided#victimsandresisters#victimsofjammeh #documentary #everydayafrica#helenjonesflorio#GambiaTRRC#humanrightsabuses @trrc_gambia #humanrights #thejunglers#visualstorytelling#portraits #photography (at The Gambia) https://www.instagram.com/floriotravels/p/BuHcTRaAfT3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3mhclcoqzyzk

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Photographer, @jasonflorio, making #Portraits4PositiveChange, The #Gambia, West Africa - image © Helen Jones-Florio (@floriotravels / @doors_facades_florio #StoriesBehindDoors |View the portraits on Jason Florio’s website https://floriophoto.com/PORTRAITS/The-Gambia---victims-&-resisters---a-work-in-progress/1/caption _ 'A Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) began in January 2019, in The Gambia, to investigate ex-president, Yahya Jammeh’s, 22-year authoritarian rule whereby mass human rights violations took place. A momentous, and historical, time for Gambia, and Gambians to be able to speak so freely once again. For the past two+ years, we have had the privilege of being able to photograph and film the testimonies of victims, and resisters of the Jammeh regime. ‘ Jason Florio, with Helen Jones-Florio _ If you would like to be part of #Portraits4PositiveChange, please check out https://www.gofundme.com/gambiavictims-of-a-regime (or use the link in our IG profile) _ _ _ #jasonflorio#jammeh2justice#westafrica#GambiaCentreforVictimsofHumanRightsViolations#portraits#YahyaJammeh#dictatorship#democracy#gambiahasdecided#victimsandresisters#victimsofjammeh #documentary #everydayafrica#helenjonesflorio#GambiaTRRC #humanrightsabuses @trrc_gambia #humanrights #documentary (at Serrekunda, Western, Gambia) https://www.instagram.com/floriotravels/p/Bt0YE5jgT0_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xkkhqsiwor6i