FEATURING PHOTOJOURNALIST JASON FLORIO

I'm joined on Surrey's Chobham Common for a photo walk with award-winning photojournalist Jason Florio to announce 2025's Photowalk Show Adventure, which is going to be in India, photographing and riding the urban-suburban and rural countryside trains in and out of Mumbai. There's an invite to make our adventure YOUR adventure as we explore Mumbai, including the cave temples of Elephanta Island, and enjoy Holi, a Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring. It's an opportunity to spend time with like-minded photographers and the people of this incredibly vibrant city on the west coast of India. Jason shares stories of this colourful city, plus opens his studio to our inquiring and curious eyes.

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MORE ABOUT names, words, THE MUSIC and places FROM TODAY’S SHOW

THE GREAT TRAIN ADVENTURE IN INDIA, the 2025 Photowalk adventure. A page to register your interest.

David Fettes is a wildlife photographer and his work has been featured in magazines around the world.

Max Vadukul, New York fashion photographer who worked with Jason Florio, mentioned in the show.

The writer Suketu Mehta, New York-based author of ‘Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,’ which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award.

The history of the Hajj pilgrimage.

Don McCullin’s picture in the foyer of the Holiday Inn, referenced within the show today.

Meals of the condemned, by photographer and artist Henry Hargreaves in a project called ‘No Seconds’.

Ross Tiger is a traditional side-winder fishing trawler that was converted into a museum ship in 1992. She is currently berthed in Alexandra Dock at her home port of Grimsby, close to the site of the former PS Lincoln Castle.

Blackout portraits - made by Jason Florio with a blackout cloth provided by his grandmother from WWII. Mike Disfarmer’s portraits, that inspired the blackout cloth portraits.

Michael Ackerman’s End Time City. He received the Nadar Award for the book in 1999, and the Infinity Award for Young Photographer by the International Center of Photography in 1998.

India through the lens of Cartier-Bresson, a Heritage Lab feature.

MUSIC LINKS: Prashant Naidu’s Calm Mind, featuring the voice of Harshini Iyer. Music on the show is sourced primarily from Artlist.