Intended Consequences

"I am slowly beginning to appreciate that the younger daughter is innocent"

Screenshot from Exposures site © J. Torgovnik

Israeli Photographer Johnathan Torgovnik has made repeated visits to war torn Rwanda after being moved by the stories of women who were raped at the hands of Hutu militia during the 1994 genocide. Using photographs of the women with their children he has documented their heart-wrenching stories. It is believed that some twenty thousand children were born of these rapes, many of whom have contracted HIV and AIDS. Not only that, their mothers live each day in their communities with the complexities of the stigma attached to having borne a child to the enemy.

Photographs may be viewed at Aperture Foundation Gallery

View the documentary of their narratives Intended Consequences at the clickable link below

Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs have been widely exhibited and published in numerous international publications, including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, Sunday Times Magazine, and Stern, 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 the non-profit organization Foundation Rwanda.