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I’ve spent a lot of time over the past couple of months in New York working on a new edit of my work from Liberia. I’ve thought a lot about what it is that pulls me to this strange country and what it is that I’m trying to say about this place. I have more clarity on this than ever, and a brand new set of portfolio images that I will use as a starting point for the next couple of weeks snapping the elections in Liberia.
Big, big thanks to Alison Morely at the International Center for Photography, Alan Chin, Jason Eskanazi, Candace Feit, Erica McDonald, and many, many others for all the feedback and assistance recently and over the past couple of years.
Please check out the full edit on my website here, and a couple of the newly rediscovered and sequenced images below too.
Laura says:
I just love your work … trying to find a suitable way to describe how it makes me feel but I’m at a loss for words
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— October 5, 2011 @ 4:54 am
Pauline says:
I think you are a brilliant photographer and your pictures never cease to inspire me. Will be looking forward to seeing your LIB elections work.
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— October 5, 2011 @ 9:58 am
Phil says:
Glenna, these are incredible. Seriously powerful work. Thanks for sharing.
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— October 5, 2011 @ 1:55 pm
Akhila says:
Wow, absolutely incredible photos, as always. I’m speechless!
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— October 5, 2011 @ 2:41 pm
Joe Harris says:
Hey Glenna thanks for the pictures, they are very inspirational and informative as always! Moreover, they always remind me of home. I may have told you in one of my comments; I am a Liberian and have followed your blog for sometimes now and always enjoy the amazing pictures from your camera lenses. In fact, your blog is one of my bookmarked items.
You know what, I agree with you that there is indeed something about Liberia that seems to draw people’s attentions…perhaps something that has not been revealed or discovered yet; I really don’t know what it is but, there is something. Maybe, it is someone like you…an outsider will find out what that something is. For us who are naturally entwined with the culture, the proximity to happenings in the country may hamper our ability to know what that thing is. I hope it will be you to discover and/or reveal that something.
Glenna, what’s about a book on Liberia from your prospective?
Well, I wish you save journey to Monrovia and we look forward to those beautiful and striking pictures as always. Thank you yah!
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— October 5, 2011 @ 8:18 pm
Bill_BRE says:
Glenna, it’s great to learn that you are back in Liberia to cover the upcoming presidential elections. If I hadn’t stopped by Scarlett Lion today to see what you have been up to lately I may have missed the news that the elections in Liberia are taking place next week! Where have I been re: news about West Africa?
I imagine that many of us who regularly follow news from and about Africa have been glued to our TV’s, computer screens, and newspapers following the uprisings across North Africa and into the Middle East, and the terrilbe famine affecting the Horn of Africa and Northern Kenya.
So thanks to Glenna Gordon, her excellent blog Scarlett Lion, and her extraordinary skills with the camera, we can from time-to-time stay in touch with people and events in that strange but enchanting West African country___ Liberia. Your professional photography and your brief postings to your blog have become synonomous with Liberia Today for me. This work is certainly part of what keeps drawing you back to the country, to engage with its warm and friendly people, to meet with old friends and acquaintances, and to follow Liberia’s rocky but steady path toward a better future. It will be interesting to read your own words about what keeps drawing you back to Liberia in the next days and weeks.
All of the design updates and changes to your website and to your blog look great as well as these new edits of your Liberia portfolio. Your time in New York (and especially in BK-Brooklyn) over the past many months has paid off in helping you to improve the look and feel of your online presence and properties.
Be well down there in Monrovia, Liberia covering the elections. I personally would like to see “Ma Ellen” win a second chance to help lead Liberia down the road to peace, stability, growth, and more prosperity for all__ including the good people of Harper in S.E. Liberia. Harper! Eternal___ thanks to you.
Bill
Bremen, Germany
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— October 6, 2011 @ 11:36 am
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