The last two posts didn’t have pictures, so this one is just gratuitous.
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.
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The last two posts didn’t have pictures, so this one is just gratuitous.
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kellyshowker says:
Hey, beautiful blog! Such amazing pictures! I also blog and live in Kampala, and I am American. Anyway I never seem to have time to post pictures I take so I really enjoyed looking at yours and I posted your link today in my entry! I don’t use my blogger anymore I am on live journal so just used it to comment. Cheers!
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— February 15, 2007 @ 12:55 pm
Jay says:
This woman should be used in Dove’s new chocolate ice cream bar campaign. “You can have an ass like this,” she’ll promise those who eat a bar a day. As it melts it becomes a sticky metaphor for colonialism, but it’s all very kinky, very hot.
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— February 16, 2007 @ 12:34 pm