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 
What better to do on a Saturday afternoon than a photo shoot with none other than Scarlett Lion? There’s also no better way to convince the askari that I am crazy than hunching down in the grassy area of our compound with my bulky camera and a plastic lion.
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Tracy says:
Hah, how funny. The lion is looking very handsome. Careful he might turn into a primadonna!
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— September 13, 2008 @ 8:44 am
Scarlett Lion says:
I know that this is in the mold of a male lion, but I guess I always think of it as a female anyway.
Transgendered lion.
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— September 13, 2008 @ 9:14 am
DeTamble says:
I love that lion! Was wondering if it was still around
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— September 14, 2008 @ 3:31 am
31337 says:
lion: o hai. nice to see you. i was wondering, could someone see to the grass around here? its getting so tall that i am unable to hunt around here…
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