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 … photography is a career of long hours, little pay, no stability, and generally a sacrifice of comfort and ease in the search for photos. If after hearing all that you still want to be in the field, you belong in it.
-Joshua Wolfe on the Digital Journalist
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Michal says:
i admire you. i’m way into my cushy armchair writing.
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— February 6, 2009 @ 11:36 pm