We continue and present the projects selected by Les Nuits Photographiques 2015 awards, which took place on September 19th. Today is about Rwandan genocide with “Intended Consequences“, directed by Jonathan Togorvnik, israelian photographer and produced by MediaStorm.
In 1994, in the East African nation of Rwanda, one million ethnic Tutsi people were slaughtered, in a genocide committed by their Hutu countrymen. But the scars left by these murderous militiamen go well beyond the numbers of the dead: they live on, in the lives of the women they held captive, raped – and left pregnant.
Intended Consequences tells the stories of some of these women, victims of the sexual violence used as a weapon of war against them. Some 20,000 children were born as a result. Photojournalist Jonathan Torgovnik photographed and interviewed 30 women and their families, and has produced a piece of incredible complexity: how does a woman care for her child when it’s the son or daughter of the man who raped her?
About Jonathan Torgovnik
Jonathan Torgovnik was born in Israel, and graduated with a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he studied Photography and Art.
His photographs from various projects and assignments have been published in numerous International publications including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, The Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, Paris Match, and Mother Jones among others.
He has received numerous honors such as The National Portrait Gallery Portrait Prize in the UK, The Open Society Institute’s Documentary photography Project Fellowship Distribution Grant, Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography, the ASMP/PDN Alfred Newman Prize, and an Emmy nomination for Intended Consequences, a short multimedia film produced by MediaStorm. He has also received awards from: World Press Photo, Picture Of The Year International, American Photography, Graphis, Communication Arts, and Photo District News.
Torgovnik is the co-founder of Foundation Rwanda an NGO that supports secondary school education for children born of rape during the Rwandan genocide.
http://www.torgovnik.com
http://mediastorm.com
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