Jonathan Torgovnik wins National Portrait Gallery Prize

About 2,700 photographers from around the world entered a record 6,900 submissions for the National Portrait Gallery's Photographic Portrait Prize. Jonathan Torgovnik's entry, Joseline Ingabire with her daughter Leah Batamuliza - the portrait of a Rwandan woman who was raped during the 1994 genocide - has won the coveted prize.

Winner also of the 2007 Getty Editorial Photography Grant, Torgovnik will donate a portion of the £12,000 prize (approx. $25,000 USD) to Foundation Rwanda, a charity he created to provide funding for the secondary school education of children born from rape during the genocide. For more information, please visit this website.

The National Portrait Gallery is holding an exhibition of 60 portraits selected by the judges, from 8 November 2007 to 24 February 2008.

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