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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DeTamble says:
*mentally places Australia over USA (because Rudd is cooler than Bush)*
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— June 12, 2008 @ 12:59 am
Phoebe says:
this is cool. am going to print out. Must do
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— June 19, 2008 @ 7:31 am
Phoebe says:
yes. i have. I have printed it, it is on my (office) wall right now. No more questions -to me – about Africa (to mean Uganda) from ….
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— June 19, 2008 @ 7:43 am
Peter Casier says:
Nice!! I cross posted, thanks!!!!
Peter
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— August 31, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
baskar says:
Great work. Thanks.
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— May 30, 2009 @ 5:25 am
Sylvain says:
Nice reminder.
In fact, most world maps used in newspapers, school books,… are made following Mercator projection, or any other cylindrical, which give a very false view of the world.
May be next generations, who are using Google Earth will be more objective in their mental representations?
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