© 2024 Jason Florio

Bintu Tunkara
2019
Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Paper
Edition of 25
16 x 20 inches

Bintu, daughter of Lamin Tunkara, whom she never got a chance to meet, looks at a picture of him on her phone. Her mother Adama Conteh was seven months pregnant with her when Lamin was murdered. He was the only Gambian among a group of over 50 Ghanaians and other West African migrants bound for Europe in 2005 by the sea. The group, who were detained, and then systematically massacred by Gambian security forces, on the orders of President Jammeh, who feared that the migrants were coup plotters.