Jason Florio (UK +USA) is a freelance photojournalist, videographer, and writer who has worked around the world for publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Men’s Journal, Outside and is contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review. His focus has been on under-reported stories about people living on the margins of society and in places of conflict. His work has been recognized with a number of international awards, including The International Photography Awards - ‘People Photographer of the Year', PX3 Gold Medal - ‘War', and the VQR - ‘Prize for Photography’. He was the first recipient of an Aperture Foundation grant to produce Aperture’s first ever assigned story, 'This is Libya’. His work has been exhibited in solo presentations in the USA, Europe, and China and is in a number of museum collections. Florio was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society for co-leading the first circumnavigation navigation of The Gambia, by foot and co-leading the first source-to-sea expedition of River Gambia - both executed to create modern day photographic accounts of the region, focusing on the environment, cultural identity and the impact of mass migration to Europe