Jonathan C. Torgovnik
Justine with her daughter Alice, Gahini, Rwanda

Justine with her daughter Alice, Gahini, Rwanda
Justine with her daughter Alice, Gahini, Rwanda
Justine with her daughter Alice, Gahini, Rwanda
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Justine with her daughter Alice, Gahini, Rwanda
  • from the series Intended Consequences
Date2006
PlaceRwanda, Africa
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 19 × 18 7/8 in. (48.3 × 47.9 cm)
Sheet: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern in honor of the artist
Object number2009.10
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Jonathan Torgovnik’s series Intended
Consequences
depicts Rwandan women with the children they bore after being
raped. An estimated 20,000 children were born from sexual crimes committed
during the genocide in Rwanda. Many of the mothers contracted HIV/AIDS from
these brutal encounters.

During the three
years Torgovnik documented these families and their stories, he learned that
many of the mothers and their children were shunned by both sides of the
Rwandan conflict. Having a child of a militia compounded the mothers’ emotional
suffering. Torgovnik has since co-founded Foundation Rwanda to help raise money
for the children to attend secondary school.


ProvenanceThe artist, Johannesburg; purchased by MFAH, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in ink on verso lower right: "Jonathan Torgovnik 2006 2/25"

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