I’m Glenna Gordon, an American photographer and journalist, presently commuting between West Africa and Brooklyn. Previously, I lived in Liberia. And before that, I lived in Uganda. I’ve traveled and worked in over a dozen countries in Africa.
This blog is named after a found object — a plastic lion that was in a crate of discarded items a friend and a few other artists had gathered. I sat on their roof in Nakasero, Kampala sorting through the crate. On that day, I was looking for something. “You are lost!” a Uganda might say. But, I’d found this discarded kid’s toy, made in China on the cheap, that somehow ended up in East Africa. Something about the hollowed out, paint-chipped figurine appealed to my understanding of this place: I’d never seen a real lion, after all.
... on Why Invisible Children can’t explain away this photo In anticipation of the bashing I’m going to take from my Journalism School friends, my reporting seminar specifically, I thought the Scarlett Lion should be more properly displayed. So here’s SL, in my Muyenga backyard. We had a little photo shot. It was fun.
See it here, and here’s a preview…
A voice of the voiceless: The ignored deaf population in Ug
“90 percent of deaf people in Uganda cannot count from one to ten or sign their name. They are talking about HIV/Aids in taxis, bars, on radio and TV… None of these modes of communication is available to most deaf people.”
