
Love this graphic.
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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Jamesdon and Coryn says:
Who's graphic is this? It's awesome!!!
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— July 12, 2009 @ 6:48 am
syiling peringatan malaysia says:
Nice graphic..simple but nice
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— July 13, 2009 @ 7:43 am
Scarlett Lion says:
@Jamesdon and Coryn — It's from the NYT. The link will take you to the article.
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— July 13, 2009 @ 9:26 am