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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normzo says:
this beach looks beatifull,and what a name….’thinkers beach’…
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— June 2, 2009 @ 1:15 pm
tumwijuke says:
Ooh, I so want to live in a city with an ocean front. Going greener than Kermit …
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— June 2, 2009 @ 3:25 pm
roentarre says:
You have captured the beauty of the people there. The beach is soooo beautiful too
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— June 2, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
kari says:
looks more like a doers beach to me.
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— June 11, 2009 @ 12:36 pm
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