“I cannot really tell you how many men came to rape me, but four months later, I was pregnant. I felt so bad, I tried committing suicide twice. I now live with HIV, which is a legacy of genocide.” —Sylvina In February of 2006, photographer Jonathan Torgovnik traveled to East Africa to report on a story for Newsweek coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the outbreak of HIV/AIDS. While in Rwanda, he heard the testimony of Margret Mukacyaka, a survivor who was raped during the Rwandan genocide and as a result of the rape had a child and contracted HIV/AIDS. Over the course of the next three years, Torgovnik made repeated visits to photograph these women and their children, and allow them to tell him their stories. Fovea is honored to host an exhibition of Torgovnik’s work and to have him speak in Beacon about his experiences this Saturday at the opening reception, scheduled from 5pm-9pm. The exhibit will be on view weekends through August 8th 2010. The exhibition is comprised of 13 portraits stunning individual portraits of the women with their children accompanied by their testimonies – intensely personal accounts of the daily challenges they continue to face, and their conflicted feelings about raising a child who is a reminder of horrors endured. A book of the same name has been published by Aperture, and brings together Torgovnik’s powerful stories of these women.