Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape Photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik

Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape

Photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik

(Presented in conjunction with Heather McClintock:The Innocents: Casualties of the Civil War in Northern Uganda)

This is an Aperture Foundation exhibition that I came across. Having come across this series of work once before in a competition, I am very excited to see that it is now in an exhibition! I am sure it will be a fascinating experience and would be going myself if I had the chance!

All the following information is from Aperture and can be found at this address.

Opening reception: Friday, January 22, 2010, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm Exhibition on view: Saturday, January 23, 2010 –Saturday, March 13, 2010 FREE Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art 161 Calhoun Street Charleston, South Carolina (843) 953-5680 Related Programming: Artist Lecture with Jonathan Torgovnik Friday, January 22, 2010 4:00 pm–5:00 pm Panel Discussion The Politics of Presentation: Finding a venue for challenging documentary projects Saturday, January 23, 10:00 am–12:00 pm

Each panelist will give a brief overview concerning their organization's engagement with challenging work, and share a few stories about how the organization has been able to persevere in this rarefied area. Panelists: Jonathan Torgovnik, photographer; Heather McClintock, artist/photographer; Heather Dwyer, Blue Earth Alliance; Melissa Harris, editor-in-chief, Aperture magazine; Tom Rankin, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University; Mark Sloan, moderator and director and senior curator, Halsey Institute. This important exhibition and book Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape (Aperture, May 2009) brings together photographer Jonathan Torgovnik's powerful documentation of the accounts of thirty women who were subjected to massive sexual violence by members of the notorious Hutu militia groups during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Due to the stigma of rape and "having a child of the militia," the communities and few surviving relatives of these women have largely shunned them. The portraits and testimonies featured in Intended Consequences offer intensely personal descriptions of these survivors' experiences and the challenges they face today, as well as their conflicted feelings about raising a child who is a living reminder of horrors endured. The exhibition includes a multimedia installation produced by MediaStorm, which gives visitors the chance to hear heart-wrenching stories from the survivors themselves. This project is a collaboration with the Open Society Institute, Amnesty International, Foundation Rwanda, and MediaStorm. Intended Consequences is made possible, in part, by generous support from Henry Buhl; SanDisk; Artis—Contemporary Israeli Art Fund; and the Consulate General of Israel, Office of Cultural Affairs, in New York. Additional support is provided by Amnesty International and Kodak.