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 
A guard at the Stone Mason temple in Harper, southeast Liberia, looks on suspiciously. The Liberian iteration of the American Masonic order once held much power in Harper. Now, old men meet once or twice a month to make decisions few listen to. To see more of my photos from Harper, visit www.glennagordon.com.
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Texas in Africa says:
Seriously beautiful and I love the title!
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— September 4, 2009 @ 11:42 am
Sophia says:
Sometimes your photos are so good I growl when I see them. Then I sigh.
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— September 5, 2009 @ 7:01 am
Ruby says:
Your pictures are so beautiful. It is hard to express what my heart feels when I see them
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— August 19, 2010 @ 2:06 pm