The exhibition Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape, Jonathan Torgovnik opens today presented along side The Innocents: Casualties of the Civil War in Northern Uganda, Heather McClintock at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Jonathan Torgovnik was featured in Aperture magazine issue #194 and in the Aperture book Intended Consequences. His portraits of Rwandan women and their children, born as a result of rape, will be shown along with Heather McClintock’s photographs from Northern Uganda.

A panel discussion titled The Politics of Presentation: Finding a Venue for Challenging Documentary Projects featuring Aperture magazine editor Melissa Harris will take place tomorrow, Saturday, January 23, 10:00 am-12:00 pm.

Panelists include:
Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik
Heather McClintock-Photographer
Heather Dwyer- Blue Alliance, Seattle
Melissa Harris- Aperture Foundation, magazine editor-in-chief
Tom Rankin- Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, NC
Mark Sloan, Moderator- Halsey Institute

Exhibition on View:
Friday, January 22-March 13 2010

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
161 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC
(843) 953-5680

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