I’m an American photographer and journalist traipsing around Africa on the lookout for the ordinary and the extraordinary, using my camera as a pretext to enter worlds not otherwise available.
This space is a scrap book of web and life trawlings – photography, music, arts, politics, and other sundry subjects. It is also a vanity press for my unpublished (and occasionally) published work.
I found the scarlett lion on the roof a friend’s house in Kampala back in 2006 when I went through a crate of discarded items he and a few other artists had gathered. On that day, I was looking for something and I found the lion: a discarded kid’s toy made in China on the cheap, that somehow found it’s way to East Africa. Something about the hollowed out, paint chipped figurine appealed to my understanding of this amazing continent: I’d never seen a real lion, after all.
Previously based in Uganda, currently in Liberia. Always roaming.
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The Masonic Temple in Monrovia is getting a new coat of paint. Part of the cause of Liberia’s fourteen year civil war was the divide between the freed American slaves who founded the modern state and the indigenous people of Liberia. Many important government decisions were made at the Masonic Temple, where indigenous people were not allowed to enter. The Stone Mason Order is still active in Liberia today.
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Yes I guess I know all I need to know about my (US) Government, which sent the group which became the Americo-Liberians, and which built Monrovia, paid for it all (etc) by what I saw inside there in 1988.
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Hi Tabitha,
I’d love to hear more about your experiences if you’d like to share them. Feel free to write something here, if you’re so motivated, or email me at glennagordon at gmail dot com.
Glenna
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