From a market in eastern Freetown.
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.
From a market in eastern Freetown.
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tumwijuke says:
Looks just like Owino!
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— September 3, 2009 @ 3:35 pm
francesco nitti says:
grande
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— September 3, 2009 @ 4:26 pm
exquistiely black says:
Beautiful image. Takes me back there.
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— September 5, 2009 @ 11:26 pm