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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Pernille in Tanzania says:
Wauw, Glenna, this is great work! Thank you for including my blog in your blogroll on your new site. I’ll see to reprociate it
I still have a question for you – which might have got lost in your busy scedule – why didn’t you do RAW untill now. I just started, and everything else seems flat….
Good greetings from the East Coast of Africa
Pernille
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— August 4, 2009 @ 9:46 pm
Esteyonage says:
site looks great and that girl getting into the groove is epic
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— August 5, 2009 @ 3:24 am
glenna says:
@P – I’ve been snapping in Raw since about July of 2008, and it took me awhile to get started mainly because of file management issues, which I still very much have!
@E – thanks!
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— August 6, 2009 @ 4:38 am
Rachel says:
Wonderful photos as always, but I have a problem!!! I’ve been trying to click through from Wronging Rights to a linked one of your old posts, and after a few seconds on the page, when I have read the first three interesting sentences, snap! It brings me here!!! Is there any way to fix this?
) Best, Rachel
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— August 6, 2009 @ 4:57 pm
glenna says:
Rachel – sorry about that! Hopefully all will be sorted by next week….
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— August 7, 2009 @ 2:39 pm
silla says:
I like your pictures lady!
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— August 19, 2009 @ 6:28 pm