A fresh hybrid of magazine and website, FLYP Media creates an interactive web experience by combining text, video, animation and sound. Street Art, Street Life was featured in the January 16 issue, a piece titled Beyond Graffiti by Anna Katarina Gravgaard, based on Aperture book and the exhibition at the Bronx Museum exhibition.

Another incredible FLYP article featuring an Aperture book and exhibition is titled Think War with Jonathan Torgovnik. Torgovnik provides Amy Van Vechten with behind-the-scenes insight to his work Intended Consequences, on view at Aperture Gallery and book soon to be available here. Watch an interview, view images, and listen to Jonathan’s reflections on his mission gathering the powerful and emotional testimonies of these women.

Other FLYP features with Aperture artists include Jonas Bendiksen, Hank Willis Thomas, and Dawoud Bey.

Photographer Jonathan Torgovnik was featured on the Leonard Lopate Show, which aired today, March 3, 2009. Jonathan offers insight to his work Intended Consequences, an exhibition on view at Aperture Gallery through May 7, and book by the same title available April 7 to coincide with the fifteen-year mark of the start of the Rwandan genocide.

Listen to the interview through WYNC below.

Visit Aperture’s Gallery Page for more information on this important exhibition including the opening recpetion, Thursday, March 5, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

During the 1994 genocide, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan women were subjected to massive sexual violence by members of the infamous Hutu militia groups, known as the Interhamwe. Among the most isolated survivors are women who have borne children as a result of those rapes. The number of children born from these atrocities is estimated around 20,000. Due to the stigma of rape and “having a child of the militia,” the women’s communities and few surviving relatives have largely shunned them. Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape brings together Jonathan Torgovnik’s remarkable portraits of these women and children, and their harrowing first-hand testimonies.

The exhibition on view at Aperture Gallery is comprised of thirty-one stunning individual portraits of these women with their children, accompanied by their testimonies—intensely personal accounts of what they have gone through, the daily challenges they continue to face, and their conflicted feelings about raising a child who is a reminder of horrors endured. The testimonies are presented in text panels and multimedia interviews projected in the center of the installation, produced by MediaStorm. The exhibition also features a video interview with Torgovnik.

Come see this powerful exhibition on view starting tomorrow, Friday, February 20, at Aperture Gallery.

Click here to view a special multimedia feature from Intended Consequences.

Aperture’s accompanying book, Intended Consequences will be published worldwide on April 7, 2009, coinciding with the fifteenth anniversary of the genocide and the opening of a satellite exhibition in the lobby of the United Nations.

Opening reception:
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 6:00–8:00 pm

Exhibition on view:
Friday, February 20–Thursday, May 7, 2009

Panel Discussion with the Artist: Wednesday, April 29, 6:30 p.m.

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
(between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, NY
(212) 505-5555

Subway: C, E to 23rd Street and 8th Avenue or 1 to 28th Street and 7th Avenue

FREE

This book and exhibition were done in collaboration with the Open Society Institute, Amnesty International, and Foundation Rwanda.