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Image Manual
Congo/Women is produced by:
Congo/Women
The average lifespan of a woman in the Democratic Republic of Congo is 46 years.
Congo/Women is a traveling photography exhibit highlighting the beauty and strength of the girls and women
of the Democratic Republic of Congo who are currently battling an unprecedented wave of gender based
violence and a lack of essential medical care. Featuring the work of Lynsey Addario, Marcus Bleasdale, Ron
Haviv, and James Nachtwey the installation weaves large portraits of these women and contextual images of
the culture and history of the region together into an environment which describes the full complexity of this
challenge. Video and audio testimony accompanies the exhibit, allowing viewers to gain and in depth
understanding of the crisis. Pregnancy as a result of rape, obstetric and traumatic fistula, HIV infection,
permanent reproductive health damage, and death will be discussed, as well as the inevitable societal
stresses caused by such atrocities. Curated from a combination of recently taken photography and newly
commissioned work – particularly of women and girls recovering from violence – the exhibit will provide a
comprehensive view of the issue and its possible solutions.
The exhibit is accompanied by a website which provides links to immediate actions that visitors who view the
exhibit can take to provide support. In addition, visitors to the site and to the exhibition can post their own
portraits on our visual petition, providing an international demonstration of the growing support that will be
raised. Media attention to opening events is promoted by local connections of each institution and with the
national support of human rights groups.
Congo/Women can be loaned by interested venues for an affordable cost. The format is flexible and our
curators will work with each institution to help them present the imagery in an appropriate fashion.
Congo/Women is co-produced by Art Works Projects and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute of the Study of
Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago.
Links:
www.congowomen.org
www.artworksprojects.org
ww.colum.edu/institutewomengender
2 | P a g e CREDITS
Curator and Co-Director: Leslie Thomas
Creative Advisor and Co-Director: Jane M. Saks
Exhibition Design: Art Works Projects (Greg Doench, Leslie Thomas) and Real Design Associates
(Jurgen Riehle and Margot Perman)
Graphic Design: Real Design Associates (Jurgen Riehle and Margot Perman)
Printing: Portland Color
Exhibition Coordinator: Sara Slawnik
Printing: Portland Color
Fabrication: Duvall Design
Voice Recording: Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Sound Design: Another Country
Website Design: Compound Design
Digital Exhibit Editor: Eric Argiro
Post Production: Union Editorial
Original Music: Mario Grigorov, Pamelia Kurstin, Jaron Lanier, Sussan Deyhim
Special thanks to Christian Delsol, UNFPA Media Specialist, Kipa L. Davis, Alexandra Guajardo,
Kristin Esch, Jaclyn Robbins, Mariana Tosic, Emma Ruby-Sachs, and Jane Sachs
Major support for Congo/Women has been provided by United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA,
Humanity United, and Leadership Donors of the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women
and Gender in the Arts and Media Columbia College Chicago.
3 | P a g e TABLE OF CONTENTS
Congo/Women Photography Exhibit Installation
Black and White Images and Captions 5
Color Photography and Captions 20
Please Note: Materials are delicate and must be handled with care –white gloves must be worn at
all times when touching the fabric panels.
All materials in the exhibit must be returned in the same condition as they were received.
If any materials are damaged while hosting the exhibit please log in checklist booklet.
Please read manual before installation and review checklist
4 | P a g e BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY
IMAGE # 1
Photographer: Marcus Bleasdale
Region, Date: Bunia, 2006
Dimensions:
2’ x 3’ dye sublimation photographic print on Eco-Tex fabric with painted
wood hanging bar top and bottom – hung on wall or freestanding aluminum
frame.
Caption: Monique, 27, who was sexually attacked, at a women’s self help group in a local
church. Such groups are working to combat stigmas which are often held against victims
and provide economic and emotional support.
IMAGE # 2
Region, Date: Zumbe, 2006
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Soldiers of General Ngodjolo’s Movement for the Revolution of Congo. Militias like
these and government soldiers have been equally guilty of using rape as a war crime.
5 | P a g e IMAGE # 3
Region, Date: Watsa, 2004
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Artisanal goldminers in northeastern DRC. Most of these miners are combatants
who exploit mineral rich areas through illegal exportation. Very little of the DRC’s natural
wealth benefits the civilian population.
IMAGE # 4
Region, Date: Goma, 2007
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: The weapons of former militia soldiers who are joining government forces. This
process has brought some stability to the DRC but also given official military roles to large
numbers of men with violent backgrounds.
Region, Date: Ituri District, 2003
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A child soldier rides back to his base in eastern DRC. While the exact number is
unknown, it is estimated that 7,000 children remain in military service as soldiers and
laborers. Many others may remain as sexual slaves.
IMAGE # 6
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A child soldier and his colleagues wait for news of their next deployment. While
30,000 children have been demobilized from fighting, others remain as combatants,
laborers, and sexual slaves.
Region, Date: Fataki, 2003
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: The body of a Hema man who was executed by Lendu militia. He was bound and
impaled before being shot. His ears had been bitten off as part of the tribal killing.
IMAGE # 8
Region, Date: Kinshasa, 2006
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A political rally for President Joseph Kabila prior to his election. This was the first
democratically held election in 46 years after dictatorship by Mobutu Sese Seke and nonelected presidencies by Kabila and his father Laurent.
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Police round up opposition J.P. Bemba supporters the day after Joseph Kabila
was elected president. Violence marred many of the election proceedings but the results
have generally been accepted as correct.
IMAGE # 10
Region, Date: Mungbwalu, 2004
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: The body of eight month old Sakura Lisi is washed for burial. She died of anemia
brought on by malaria, a preventable yet common affliction in a region with almost no
healthcare.
Region, Date: Dro Dro, 2003
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Catherine, nine years old, was attacked by Lendu soldiers who tried to machete
off her leg. She is returning to the bush rather than staying in the hospital where 14 people
were recently killed.
IMAGE # 12
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A street child with malaria in a care center infirmary. Basic schooling, food, and
lodging are sometimes offered in exchange for light labor. Occasional charges of child
abuse have been made at some centers.
10 | P a g e IMAGE # 13
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Boys bathing in a center for street children. There are approximately 30,000
homeless children in Kinshasa, the country’s capital, mostly orphaned by AIDS, poverty,
and military violence.
IMAGE # 14
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A preacher performs an exorcism ritual. Many street children are accused of
possession by spirits and abandoned after a family member dies and there is a significant
income loss for food.
11 | P a g e IMAGE # 15
Region, Date: Tchomia, 2006
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Opangi Molati, five years old, after being displaced from his home after fighting in
the region. There are 30,000 people living in this area with limited supplies and virtually no
international help.
IMAGE # 16
Photographer: James Nachtwey
Region, Date: Kanyabyonga, 2005
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A malnourished child being measured at a supplemental nutrition clinic. An
estimated 30% of children in the DRC are significantly underfed, often leading to disease,
cognitive impairment, and death.
12 | P a g e IMAGE # 17
Region, Date: Kanya, 2005
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A severely malnourished four year old girl is fed by her mother at a therapeutic
nutritional center. The family's village was attacked and the community fled into the forest
where food was scarce.
IMAGE # 17A
Region, Date: Ituri District, 2005
A man whose leg was amputated because of a wound suffered during battle is examined at
a Doctors Without Borders hospital.
13 | P a g e IMAGE # 18
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: An accident victim at a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders. With the collapse
of the DRC’s medical infrastructure untreated infection has led to fatality from many
common accidents. Humanitarian organizations are often the only source of care available
in remote regions.
IMAGE # 19
Region, Date: North Kivu, 2005
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A 70 year old woman gang raped by government soldiers while working in the
fields near her village receives counseling at the Doctors Without Borders sexual violence
clinic.
14 | P a g e IMAGE # 20
Region, Date: Kagaba Ituri, 2006
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A sign outside a military camp reads, “Discipline is the mother of armies”. Rape is
at an epidemic level here with 6,000 women being treated by one organization over 24
months. Most of these attacks are perpetrated by armed groups.
IMAGE # 21
Photographer: Lynsey Addario
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Congolese Army soldiers en route to their deployment. The government is trying
to bring soldiers like these from local militias into the official forces but they are often
unpaid and living in miserable conditions, which has hindered integration.
15 | P a g e IMAGE # 22
Region, Date: Sake, 2007
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A displaced woman at a camp where the Tutsi militia leader, General Nkunda, has
been accused of using people as human shields for his military operations. It is estimated
that 1,400,000 people are internally displaced within the Congo.
IMAGE # 23
Region, Date: Aveba, 2006
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A displaced woman and her baby gather around a church for shelter near
Pakistani peacekeeping forces during a United Nations attempt to clear the area of local
militia groups in the months leading up to the elections.
16 | P a g e IMAGE # 24
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A defendant facing charges of rape in court. These cases are often settled out of
court with livestock compensation or coerced marriage between the parties. Women are
also sometimes paid to write letters pleading for the release of their attackers.
IMAGE # 25
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Defendants in a rape case are handcuffed together in order to travel back to
prison.
17 | P a g e IMAGE # 26
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Women in a church run a help center for victims of sexual violence.
IMAGE # 27
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: Maria, a mother of three, lost her arm defending her children in eastern DRC.
Lendu soldiers ate portions of her arm after cutting it off.
18 | P a g e IMAGE # 28
Dimensions:
frame.
Caption: A mother caring for her children sick with malaria and dysentery. Though
treatable, these diseases, along with cholera and meningitis, are often fatal in the DRC to
the millions without medical access.
(PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO IMAGE #29)
IMAGE # 30
Dimensions: 2’ x 3’ dye sublimation photographic print on Eco-Tex fabric with painted
wood hanging bar top and bottom – hung on wall or freestanding aluminum frame.
Caption: The women’s ward at a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders. Women arrive at
the hospital every day with major issues related to reproductive health, including rape
trauma, fistula, and other complications from pregnancy.
19 | P a g e COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY
IMAGE # 1
Dimensions:
7’ x 10’-6” dye sublimation photographic print on Eco-Tex fabric stretched
over collapsible aluminum frame 1’-8” deep.
Caption: Amandine, 14, is pregnant and being cared for in the Keyshero shelter and
medical center in North Kivu. The lack of available medical professionals and unattended
birth conditions can lead to extended labor and severe complications. Obstetric fistula,
which must be repaired with surgery and often prevents women from living with their
community and providing economic sustenance to their families, is common and maternal
mortality rates are double that of the region. The estimated infant mortality in 2006 was
over 12% of live births.
Photographer: Ron Haviv
Region, Date: Gina, 2005
Dimensions:
Caption: A young girl prays as she waits to see a priest who is hearing confession at a
camp for internally displaced persons in eastern Congo. The priest spent ten days in the
camp, conducting mass weddings, baptisms and confessions. Approximately 70% of the
population is Christian, 10% are Kimbanguist, 10% are Muslim and the remainder practice
traditional beliefs. Religious differences are not typically a source of conflict within the
Congo, though some militia leaders, like General Nkunda, claim to fight in the name of their
beliefs.
Region, Date: Tche, 2005
Dimensions:
Caption: A woman and her son receiving treatment at a clinic for malnutrition run by
Doctors without Borders. The family is from the Hema tribe and fled their hom es after
attacks. Displacement has created severe shortages of food and medicine and often
impacted the youngest most severely. 20% of all children die before reaching their fifth
birthday and 30% of all children under five are severely malnourished.
Region, Date: Gina, 2005
Dimensions:
Caption: A young girl and her family mourn the death of an eleven month old child who died
from disease. More than 3.8 million people have died in the Congo conflict since 1998, the
majority of people from disease and hunger prompted by displacement due to regional
fighting. Government health care spending is only $6.00 per capita and there are
essentially no medical facilities in rural areas other than those provided by international
humanitarian groups.
Region, Date: North Kivu, 2008
Dimensions:
Caption: Congolese women who were sexually assaulted sit in a shelter run by Heal Africa
with mosquito nets in the foreground. While it is unknown exactly how many women and
girls have been sexually attacked during the violence in the DRC the numbers is in the tens
of thousands and the impact has been widespread. Family and community structures have
suffered, economic ability has been reduced, and the remaining health care facilities have
been overwhelmed. High incidence of HIV/AIDS among the population, often transferred
through rape, has further made sexual violence a potential death sentence.
Region, Date: Kayna, 2008
Dimensions:
Caption: Sophie, 20 years old, sits at a window with her two children, each born out of
rape, at her home. She was kidnapped and held for almost three years in the bush by six
Interhamwe (a Kinyarwanda phrase meaning “those who work together” referring to Hutu
paramilitary forces) who she thinks were Rwandan soldiers. Raped repeatedly, she had
one child in the forest and was pregnant with the second one by the time she escaped.
Thousands of women have been held as sex slaves and domestic workers throughout the
violence in the DRC.
Dimensions:
Caption: Lucie, 16 years old, sits in the Heal Africa shelter in Goma about six months after
she was raped in the town of Sake. She could not run away from the fighting because she
was handicapped by elephantiasis and she is now pregnant. An almost complete
breakdown of the DRC medical infrastructure means that humanitarian organizations
offering care are often the only source of treatment. Within the country there is only one
physician per each 100,000 persons and millions are without any access to health care.
Dimensions:
Caption: Therese, 11 years old and an orphan, was living in a refugee camp in North Kivu
when she was raped by several men while gathering firewood. Other displaced villagers
brought her to the Gesome Center for medical care and shelter. Firewood gathering,
traditionally handled by women and girls in the DRC, can be dangerous as it takes place in
unprotected areas which may be near military camps. While rape has also been perpetrated
by civilians, a large number of combatants have been responsible for sexual attacks. This is
particularly dangerous as the rate of HIV/AIDS infection is five times higher in military
personnel than in civilians.
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