I’m filing left and right, so I won’t put the full text of the stories here, just some links to my work (PlusNews doesn’t use bylines, but if you check the page, the Uganda stories are mostly ones I’ve written.)
Women shoulder AIDS burden
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 I’m filing left and right, so I won’t put the full text of the stories here, just some links to my work (PlusNews doesn’t use bylines, but if you check the page, the Uganda stories are mostly ones I’ve written.)
Women shoulder AIDS burden
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