Glenna Gordon

In 2006, Gordon earned a master's degree in print journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism.{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldpressphoto.org/person/detail/1333/glenna-gordon|title=Glenna Gordon {{!}} World Press Photo|website=www.worldpressphoto.org|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=September 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923083210/https://www.worldpressphoto.org/person/detail/1333/glenna-gordon|url-status=live}} She then made her first trip to Africa where she photographed images of the developing world. Her work has been shown in museums in New York City, Washington D.C., Nigeria, and London. She lectures at the New School in New York City in the graduate program for international affairs.

In 2014, Gordon was commissioned by The New York Times to take photographs for an article on ISIS hostages by Rukmini Callimachi. The article "The Horror Before the Beheadings" focused on the experiences of people held hostage by ISIS.{{Cite news|last=Callimachi|first=Rukmini|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/world/middleeast/horror-before-the-beheadings-what-isis-hostages-endured-in-syria.html|title=The Horror Before the Beheadings|date=October 2, 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 9, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316165212/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/world/middleeast/horror-before-the-beheadings-what-isis-hostages-endured-in-syria.html|url-status=live}} The photographs were also featured in Callimachi's articles "Paying Ransoms, Europe Bankrolls Qaeda Terror".{{Cite news|last=Callimachi|first=Rukmini|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/world/africa/ransoming-citizens-europe-becomes-al-qaedas-patron.html|title=Paying Ransoms, Europe Bankrolls Qaeda Terror|date=July 2, 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 9, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=March 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308002656/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/world/africa/ransoming-citizens-europe-becomes-al-qaedas-patron.html|url-status=live}} In this series, Gordon photographed objects the freed hostages held onto during and after their captivity. The objects reveal pieces of individual hostage's stories unknown to the public.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theaftermathproject.org/project/artifacts-kidnapping|title=Artifacts of a Kidnapping {{!}} The Aftermath Project|website=www.theaftermathproject.org|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=February 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212123917/http://www.theaftermathproject.org/project/artifacts-kidnapping|url-status=live}}

In 2014, the jihadist terrorist organization, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from their boarding school in Chibok in northeast Nigeria. Although there was media coverage about the incident, little mentioned the kidnapped girls themselves. Gordon photographed some of their belongings sent to her by family members. The photographs were published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Time.{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3821976/nigeria-chibok-missing-girls-glenna-gordon-boko-haram/|title=Photographer of Missing Nigerian Girls' Belongings: Our Attention Was Not Enough|last=|first=|date=2015|magazine=Time|access-date=|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126082504/https://time.com/3821976/nigeria-chibok-missing-girls-glenna-gordon-boko-haram/|url-status=live}} The work was given the 2015 World Press Award.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/glenna-gordon-photographing-unphotographable|title=Photographing the Unphotographable|last=Cole|first=Teju|magazine=The New Yorker|date=November 13, 2014|language=en|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=July 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722150702/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/glenna-gordon-photographing-unphotographable|url-status=live}}

Gordon's Diagram of the Heart captures female novelists living in Kano, a city in Northern Nigeria. The novelists write in the genre of Littattafan Soyayya, which roughly translates to love literature.{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4196241/anatomy-of-a-photobook-diagram-of-the-heart-by-glenna-gordon/|title=Anatomy of a Photobook: 'Diagram of the Heart' by Glenna Gordon|last=Brook|first=Pete|date=|magazine=Time|access-date=|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021023120/https://time.com/4196241/anatomy-of-a-photobook-diagram-of-the-heart-by-glenna-gordon/|url-status=live}} Published in 2016 Diagram of the Heart was awarded photo book of the year by The New York Times Magazine, Pictures of the Year International and PDN (Photo District News). The book was also featured in Moving Walls 23: Journeys and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts.

American Women of the Far Right is an investigative photo essay wherein Gordon explores the views of women who participate in extremist politics and hate groups. She had found that white supremacy was largely portrayed in the media through a male dominated lens. Gordon captured portraits of women who also hold these politic views. Some of these women identified as white supremacists, conservative extremists, racists, Klansmen, and Nazis.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theaftermathproject.org/project/american-women|title=American Women {{!}} The Aftermath Project|website=www.theaftermathproject.org|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=February 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218105944/http://theaftermathproject.org/project/american-women|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/12/13/american-women-of-the-far-right/|title=American Women of the Far Right|last=Gordon|first=Glenna|date=December 1, 2018|website=The New York Review of Books|language=en|access-date=April 9, 2020|archive-date=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108212932/https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/12/13/american-women-of-the-far-right/|url-status=live}}

In 2019, Gordon won the Aftermath Grant{{Cite web|url=https://www.aftermath.com/law-enforcement/why-we-serve-2/|title=Aftermath Why We Serve Grant|last=|first=|date=June 5, 2019|website=|access-date=|archive-date=April 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422052002/https://www.aftermath.com/law-enforcement/why-we-serve-2/|url-status=live}} for her proposed project American Women. This project is an expansion of American Women of the Far Right. The project will cover women who live in the same areas but who instead work for social justice.{{Cite web|url=http://lenscratch.com/2019/01/glenna-gordon-winner-of-the-2019-aftermath-grant/|title=Glenna Gordon: Winner of the 2019 Aftermath Grant|date=January 1, 2019|website=LENSCRATCH|language=en-US|access-date=April 14, 2020|archive-date=January 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130212133/http://lenscratch.com/2019/01/glenna-gordon-winner-of-the-2019-aftermath-grant/|url-status=live}}

Liberia: Traces of America's Ghosts is an ongoing project to documenting the after effects of Liberia's civil war. Gordon has been working in Liberia as a photojournalist since 2009.{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3785077/living-with-the-past-in-liberia/|title=Living with the Past in Liberia|last=Harris|first=Neil|magazine=Time|language=en-us|access-date=April 14, 2020|archive-date=April 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416092753/https://time.com/3785077/living-with-the-past-in-liberia/|url-status=live}}

Published in 2012, Nigeria Ever After is a collection of photographs from Nigerian weddings. The collection explores the style and cost of marriage in the country.{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3730631/my-most-important-photo-glenna-gordon-nigeria-2012/|title=My Most Important Photo: Glenna Gordon, Nigeria, 2012|last=Gordon|first=Glenna|magazine=Time|language=en-us|access-date=March 10, 2020|archive-date=October 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020184018/https://time.com/3730631/my-most-important-photo-glenna-gordon-nigeria-2012/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2014/02/28/musings-glenna-gordons-nigeria-ever-after/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002004556/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2014/02/28/musings-glenna-gordons-nigeria-ever-after/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 2, 2019|title=Musings: Glenna Gordon's Nigeria Ever After|date=February 2, 2014|website=Photography|language=en|access-date=March 10, 2020}}

Gordon's photographic series Indonesia: The End is the Beginning depicts the different kinds of funeral rites and burial practices in Indonesia. Gordon captures the celebration of death and transition to the afterlife on the island of Bali. Another photo follows a long funeral procession and slow mourning process on the island of Sumba.{{Cite web|url=http://www.photo-festival.org/en/glenna-gordon-2/|title=The end is the beginning: Journey to the afterlife in Indonesia|last=|first=|date=|website=Baie de Saint-Brieuc Photo Festival|access-date=|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803212212/http://www.photo-festival.org/en/glenna-gordon-2/|url-status=dead}}

• 2019: Aftermath project grant
• 2017–2018: The New School, Faculty Research Fund
• 2017: Economic Hardship Reporting Project
• 2017: Pulitzer Center Grant, Nigeria
• 2016: Indonesia, Festival PhotoReporter Grant
• 2012: Nigeria, African Artists Foundation Residency

• 2019: American Women{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• 2017: Eugene Smith Award{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• 2017: PDN winner for personal project{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• 2015: Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award{{Cite web|url=http://www.magentafoundation.org/publication/flash-forward-2015/|title=Flash Forward 2015|website=The Magenta Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=April 2, 2020|archive-date=October 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019220528/https://www.magentafoundation.org/publication/flash-forward-2015/|url-status=live}}
• 2015: World Press Award{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• 2015: American Photo{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• 2015: Communication Arts{{Cite web|url=https://www.commarts.com/features/60-years-of-photography|title=60 Years of Photography|date=August 2, 2019|website=Communication Arts|language=en-us|access-date=April 2, 2020|archive-date=December 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203004509/https://www.commarts.com/features/60-years-of-photography|url-status=live}}
• 2014: Grand Prize for visual storytelling, LensCulture{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
• 2014: First prize in portraiture, Px3{{Cite web|url=https://px3.fr/winners/|title=Prix de la Photographie Winners|website=PX3 Photography Awards|language=en-US|access-date=April 2, 2020|archive-date=June 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615154046/https://px3.fr/winners/|url-status=dead}}

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