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 Almost. Everything. I’ve done. All in one place. Since the Monitor’s website sucks and I can’t manage to keep all my clips together, and Mom, you keep asking me just what is it that I do?
But here, finally, photos, stories, everything.
It’s new, thanks to you, the lovely and talented JACKFRUITY. Let me know what you think of it.
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It’s really wonderful to see all of your work together, and the site presents it very elegantly.
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