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Jason Florio

In our Jan/Feb 2022 issue, Jason Florio’s photo story took readers along the Gambia River on Africa’s west coast. While there are few villages on the river’s banks, most inland villages have a tenda (wharf) where fishermen can be seen in their canoes. Read the story.

A troop of endangered red colubus monkeys in the protected Bijilo Forest Park, in the west of The Gambia.

Lopiz Jarju, aged 42, at Kauur — one of the few full-time sailors still working on River Gambia. He works for the Gambia Groundnut Corporation on a tugboat that pulls barges with 100-tonne loads of peanuts from upcountry loading centers to a processing plant where the river meets the Atlantic ocean at the capital, Banjul.

The children of fishermen from the Toucouleur ethnic group. The Toucouleurs migrate seasonally from Senegal to River Gambia to fish for catfish, and live in makeshift camps with their families.

Children pose for a portrait on an old fishing jetty on River Gambia in the Upper River Region province.

Silk cotton trees on the edge of River Gambia at the town of Kuntaur. The town was formally an important trading centre, with a large depot for Gambia's main export, peanuts. With the fabrication of two main roads on the north and south bank of the river, much of the transport of goods is now done by trucks, leaving a number of river side towns relics of their former selves.

Young boys play in the water next to the ferry in Janjanbureh town — known as George Town during the colonial era.

A supporter of the former dictator Yahya Jammeh at her stall in the market at Bansang town.

Basero Njie, a second-generation photographer, in his studio in Bansang town.

Young boys practice traditional wrestling on the banks of River Gambia at the village of Karantaba Tenda.