Simon Norfolk
Rwanda: The skulls of bodies found around the church at Ntarama

Rwanda: The skulls of bodies found around the church at Ntarama

© Simon Norfolk / Gallery Luisotti

Rwanda: The skulls of bodies found around the church at Ntarama
Rwanda: The skulls of bodies found around the church at Ntarama
ArtistBritish, born Nigeria, 1963
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Rwanda: The skulls of bodies found around the church at Ntarama
  • from the series For Most Of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory
Datec. 1998, printed 1999
Place depictedNtarama, Rwanda
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 5 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (14.9 × 14.9 cm)
sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (40.3 × 30.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern
Object number2001.213
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon]; purchased by MFAH, 2001.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped lower right recto: "simon norfolk/0044 171254 9620"

Marked in pencil on verso lower left; "Simon Norfolk august '99"
Marked in pencil on verso lower right: "Rwanda Massacre Site"

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