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.
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From the Onion. For all the people helping.
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Dustyn WInder says:
The Onion has been on a roll of late.
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— October 7, 2009 @ 1:52 am
Liza says:
Is there an article behind this photo, if so, I cannot find the link
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— October 7, 2009 @ 6:46 am
Liza says:
Jus realised what The Onion is. I was not familiar with the concept of the magazine before, so my question above was silly, I guess.
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— October 8, 2009 @ 7:15 am
Esteyonage says:
This almost touches the Onion’s best one of the year, scribed as Barrack moved ever closer to presidency:
“Black Man Asks for Change”
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— October 8, 2009 @ 10:44 am