Jonathan Torgovnik’s (b. 1969, Israel) photographs have been widely exhibited and published in numerous international publications, including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, Sunday Times Magazine, and Stern, among others. He has been a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine since 2005, and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography School in New York.
In 2007, Torgovnik won the National Portrait Gallery’s Photographic Portrait Prize for an image from Intended Consequences, his long term project on Rwandan women that were raped during the 1994 genocide and have a child as a result. Aperture Foundation just published the book of Intended Consequences.
Photograph by Jonathan Torgovnik
He is co-founder of the non-profit organization Foundation Rwanda.
He also received awards from: Picture Of The Year International, American Photography, Graphis, Communication Arts, and Photo District News. Torgovnik’s book “Bollywood Dreams” – an exploration of the motion picture industry and its culture in India, was published by Phaidon Press in 2003.
Torgovnik’s award-winning photographs have been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US and Europe and are in the permanent collections of museums such as The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Bibliotheque National De France in Paris.
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