Photographing the Unphotographable – The New Yorker

Photographing the Unphotographable

An interview with Glenna Gordon about her work as a photojournalist covering Boko Haram, ISIS, and the Ebola outbreak.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/glenna-gordon-photographing-unphotographable

Glenna Gordon has been photographing objects—school uniforms, or a pair of medical gloves—and somehow getting them to express their latent energies and their uncanny ability to divulge more than one would expect. Teju Cole reached her in Abuja by e-mail to talk about these recent projects.