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 
After several months of transatlantic planning, along with my friend and colleague Jina Moore, this month I’ll be working on a project about justice in Liberia with the support of the Pulitzer Center. You can read more about the project here, or follow our blog entries here.
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Tammy says:
Glenna, this is extraordinary – congratulations! I have the utmost admiration and respect for this endeavor as someone who majored in journalism major and now working w/ MCF – I look forward to following your journey.
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— October 6, 2009 @ 1:55 pm