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Protected: Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau

Protected: There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: This is war

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Protected: Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call

Glenna Gordon

Glenna Gordon is a photographer and writer who splits her time between Brooklyn and West Africa. Her work has appeared in Time, The New York Times, Newsweek, and elsewhere. She also blogs about photographic representations of Africa, her own work, music videos from Africa, and more. And, yes, she took that picture.
Art AfricaArts & Culture

Andrea Stultiens’s Images of Emptiness

By Glenna Gordon July 9, 2012

Photos of empty performance spaces in Lagos capture the spirit of Fela Kuti's famous nightclub and strip back the chaos of one of the world's busiest cities.

Interview Asia & OceaniaBodies & Nature

Candace Feit: Order in the Loud and Dirty

By Glenna Gordon March 26, 2012

Candace Feit on her work exploring loneliness and solitude among fishermen in Tamil Nadu, on India’s south coast.

Photography Africa

Northern Uganda, Visible

By Glenna Gordon March 20, 2012

Kony 2012 is the starting point—but not the ending point—for this collection of images

Interview AfricaArts & Culture

Stanley Greene: Nigerians Documenting Nigerians

By Glenna Gordon March 12, 2012

The famous documentary photographer on the importance of Nigerians archiving their own history.

Photography Africa

Liberia’s Fraught Election

By Glenna Gordon November 11, 2011
Photographer Glenna Gordon captures Liberia’s first independent presidential elections and the rough aftermath.
Photography Arts & Culture

“Two Wives: Nollywood”

By Glenna Gordon September 27, 2011
A series of photographs inspired by Nigeria’s film industry that demonstrates the possibility for multiple narratives within the same space.
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