Jonathan Torgovnik: Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape
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An estimated 20,000 children were born of rapes that occurred during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Fifteen years later, the mothers of these children still face enormous challenges, not least of which is the stigma of bearing and raising a child fathered by a Hutu militiaman. Over the past three years, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik has made…
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 143
Publication date: 2009-03-13
Measurements: 8.7 x 9.8 x 0.7 inches
ISBN: 9781597111010
Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs have been widely exhibited and published in numerous international publications, including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, and Marie Claire, among others. He has been a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine since 2005, and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography School in New York. In 2007, Torgovnik won the National Portrait Gallery’s Photographic Portrait Prize for an image from Intended Consequences. He is co-founder of Foundation Rwanda, a non-profit organization.
Rwandan-born Marie Consolée Mukagendo has worked with UNICEF for over five years. She specializes in working with children affected by armed conflict.