10/06
2009
2009
From the Onion. For all the people helping.
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
From the Onion. For all the people helping.
Check this out! Great photos by African photographers of football in Ghana:
An exciting new project aims to give African journalists a voice in the global media in the build-up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Twenty Ten is a multidisciplinary media project that focuses on strengthening African journalists from the disciplines of writing, radio reporting and photography, and distributing their articles, images, broadcasts and multimedia productions to media across Africa and the world. 108 journalists from 34 African nations are attending workshops around the continent which coincide with qualifying matches for the tournament. 18 of them will be invited to South Africa to cover the event on the ground during June and July 2010.
After several months of transatlantic planning, along with my friend and colleague Jina Moore, this month I’ll be working on a project about justice in Liberia with the support of the Pulitzer Center. You can read more about the project here, or follow our blog entries here.
