08/03
2010
2010
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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.
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It’s my brother Grant’s birthday.* Go over there and wish him a good one… he’s in the bush now, but back online in a couple of days.
*What’s the use of having a rather public blog if not to broadcast family occasions? Normal posting will resume tomorrow.
I was going to post a bunch of outtakes from Aging Alone, but somehow, these ones feel like enough. There are more photos on glennagordon.com too that aren’t posted on my blog. You can also learn more about aging in Africa and elsewhere at Help Age International.