Jonathan Torgovnik                           (aperture spring 2009)

Jonathan Torgovnik graduated with a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he studied Photography and Fine Arts. Jonathan's photographs from various projects and assignments have been published by: The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, GQ, GEO, The London Sunday Times Magazine, Wired, Stern, Paris Match, Le Monde 2, The Telegraph Magazine, Mother Jones, Aperture, Smithsonian Magazine, and CNN among many others. Torgovnik is the author of two books: Bollywood Dreams; An Exploration of the Motion Picture Industry, and it's Culture in India (Phaidon, 2003), and Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape (Aperture, 2009). 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 and institutions such as The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Bibliotheque National De France in Paris, and the Library of congress, Washington, DC.