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About the Exhibition |
Between April and June of 1994, over eight hundred thousand Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the space of one hundred days in the small central-African country of Rwanda. Over one hundred thousand women were subjected to sexual violence perpetrated by members of the infamous Hutu militia groups known as the Interhamwe. Of those that survived this violence more than twenty thousand have given birth to children. Fifteen years later, the mothers of these children still face enormous challenges, not the least of which is the stigma of bearing and raising a child fathered by a Hutu militiaman.
Valentine with her daughters, Amelie and Inez,
Jonathan Torgovnik, courtesy Aperture Foundation  |
Intended Consequences is organized by the Aperture Foundation of New York and is made possible by support from the Open Society Institute, Amnesty International, and Foundation Rwanda.
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Jonathan Torgovnik was born in 1969 in Israel and received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His photographs have been widely exhibited and published in numerous international publications, including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, Sunday Times Magazine, and Stern. 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 also co-founder of Foundation Rwanda; a non-profit organization that supports secondary school education for Rwandan children born of rape. |
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Exhibition Opening and Reception |
Saturday, September 4
5 - 7:00pm |
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Artist Talk, Book Signing, & Reception |
Saturday, October 9 6 - 8:00pm |
