Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs from various projects and
assignments have been published in numerous international
publications including Newsweek, GEO, The Sunday Times Magazine,
Stern, Smithsonian and Paris Match among others. His
award-winning photographs have been included in numerous solo and
group exhibitions in the US and Europe and are in the permanent
collections of museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
and the Bibliotheque National De France in Paris. Torgovnik
is the author of Bollywood Dreams, published by Phaidon Press and
Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape published by
Aperture. 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.
Works
Intended Consequences – Media
Storm
During the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women were subjected to massive
sexual violence, perpetrated by members of the infamous Hutu
militia groups known as the Interahamwe. Among the survivors, those
who are most isolated are the women who have borne children as a
result of being raped. Their families have rejected both them and
their children, compounding their already unimaginable emotional
distress.
An estimated 20,000 children were conceived during the genocide in
Rwanda, and many of their mothers contracted HIV during the same
encounters that left them pregnant. They feel they have lost their
dignity, are alone and utterly powerless. Intended Consequences
chronicles the lives of these women. Their narratives are embodied
in portrait photographs, interviews and oral reflections.
For more images and information visit:
Foundation Rwanda: http://www.foundationrwanda.org
Media Storm: http://mediastorm.org/0024.htm
Jonathan Torgovnik: http://www.torgovnik.com