Jonathan Torgovnik

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Jonathan Torgovnik (born 1969) is an Israeli photographer and photojournalist. [1] [2] He lives in Johannesburg, in South Africa. [3] He spent two years in Rwanda photographing women who had been systematically raped during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and the children born from those rapes. The photographs and the story were published in the Daily Telegraph magazine in 2007. A charity, Foundation Rwanda, was founded as a result. [4] In 2014, Torgovnik returned to Rwanda. [5] In 2015 he documented the lives of migrants who have moved, many of them illegally, to South Africa from other African countries such as Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Malawi. [3]

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Life and work

Torgovnik was born in 1969 in Tel Aviv, Israel. [1] In 2006 he was commissioned by Newsweek to document the effects of twenty-five years of AIDS in Africa. [6] While in Rwanda, he met Tutsi women who had been victims of systematic rape during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, many of whom had contracted AIDS, and many of whom had children fathered by the rapists. His photographs of these women were published in Stern and in the Daily Telegraph magazine in 2007. In the same year, one of them, a portrait of "Joseline Ingabire with her daughter Leah Batamuliza, Rwanda", won the Photographic Portrait Prize of the National Portrait Gallery in London. [1] The photographs were published as a book, Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape, in 2009. In 2012 they won Torgovnik the Prix Découverte, the highest prize at the annual Rencontres d'Arles photography festival in Arles, in Provence in southern France. [2] [7]

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  1. 1 2 3 Photographic Portrait Prize 2007. London: National Portrait Gallery. Archived 24 January 2009.
  2. 1 2 Valérie Duponchelle (10 July 2012). Arles: les enfants du génocide rwandais primés (in French). Le Figaro. Accessed May 2017.
  3. 1 2 Olivier Laurent (12 January 2016). The 'Hijacked' Life of Migrants in Johannesburg. Time. Accessed May 2017.
  4. ↑ [s.n.] (2014). Rwanda: Intended Consequences, photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik. London: The Daily Telegraph. Accessed May 2017.
  5. ↑ [s.n.] (14 June 2014). Changing Lives: Rwanda. London: The Daily Telegraph. Accessed May 2017.
  6. ↑ Michael Streck (2 March 2007). Kinder in Ruanda: Mein Kind ist das Kind meines Feindes (in German). Stern. Accessed May 2017.
  7. ↑ Sean O'Hagan (9 July 2012). Torgovnik's powerful portraits from Rwanda take top prize at Arles. The Guardian. Accessed May 2017.
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