Survivors and Perpetrators of Rwandan Genocide Pose Together in Powerful Portraits [Interview]
What does it mean to forgive someone? How is reconciliation possible when a person commits the worst acts imaginable? These are just two of the questions that surface from Dutch photographer Jan Banning’s series Blood Bonds: Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda. The collection, in which Banning’s photographs are paired with text from writer Dick Wittenberg, shows the unexpected: perpetrators and survivors of the Rwandan genocide posing together in solemn, restrained portraits.











































































