While looking for an old file, I found this comic that I must have scanned from the Daily Monitor back in 2008. Still love it.
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 back in 2006, sorting through the crate. On that day, I was looking for something. “You are lost!” Ugandas say. But, on that day, 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.
While looking for an old file, I found this comic that I must have scanned from the Daily Monitor back in 2008. Still love it.
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Jackie says:
Haha, now I’ll be sure to never leave my baby alone with grandpa!
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— July 30, 2012 @ 10:45 pm
Eduardo Baca says:
A big thank you for your blog article.Really thank you! Keep writing.
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— September 6, 2012 @ 10:36 pm