Photo© Jonathan Torgovnik.

The Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project has announced the recipients of the winter 2007 Distribution Grant competition. Awarded to photographers who have completed a significant project on social justice or human rights issues, the grant supports presenting the work in innovative ways and reaching out to specific audiences to advocate for social change. The aim is to ensure that the work gains critical exposure and has the greatest chance to stimulate change. Each photographer must collaborate with another entity—such as a nonprofit, advocacy, or community-based organization—to distribute the work.

The following photographers were selected:

• Wendy Ewald will repatriate photographs made by Innu children in 1969 and distribute, locally and provincially, new images made in collaboration with the Innu nation.
• Leora Kahn will exhibit in Rwanda photographs and interviews with 25 Hutu rescuers during the 1994 Rwandan genocide to foster reconciliation and peace-building between Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda.
• Tim Matsui will conduct speaker engagements as part of a multimedia presentation in Seattle public schools that aims to create a dialogue on the lasting effects of sexual violence on individuals and communities.
• Breaking the Silence will exhibit “Israeli Soldiers Talk About the Occupied Territories,” photographs and testimonies from ex-Israeli soldiers in Boston and Philadelphia.
• Jonathan Torgovnik's “Intended Consequences: Genocide Mothers, Children of Rape,” a chronicle of women and their children who were born out of rape during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, will tour U.S. colleges and universities.

For more information on the photographers, please see the 2007 Distribution Grantee list.