Rwanda Project Founder Dies

Theatre producer and photographer David Jiranek died this weekend at the age of 45. Three years ago Jiranek “traveled to Rwanda to bring disposable instamatic cameras to the children in an orphanage founded and still run by a 90-year-old American matriarch, Rosamond Carr, to care for the young survivors of the Hutu-Tutsi genocide. An exhibition of the astonishing images created by the children became the basis for a photography exhibition shown in Rwanda’s capital city and at various galleries in the United States, most recently this summer in New York.”