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.
... on Why Invisible Children can’t explain away this photo 
Egypt is the land of camels. I managed to secure some camel cigarettes, take a camel ride, and have been consistently asked how many camels for my hand in marriage.
I’m here on holiday with my parents, hence the lack of blogging for a week or so.
My mom wants to know why she can’t swim in the Nile. Aside from the crocodiles, I mentioned to her people probably wash their clothes, dump their garbage, etc…
I’ll stick with swimming in the pool until I get back to Kampala on Wednesday.
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Cheri says:
Eh mama…..some.
We expect pics on Wednesday!
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— April 3, 2007 @ 6:41 am
Michal says:
*waves* hi everyone!
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— April 10, 2007 @ 9:14 pm