Jan Banning, Dick Wittenberg
Blood Bonds:
Publication date: October 2025
Photobooks
Blood Bonds:
Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Publication date: October 2025Photobooks
Blood Bonds is a new photobook by photographer Jan Banning and journalist Dick Wittenberg, with an essay on forgiveness by philosopher Marjan Slob. It addresses the genocide in Rwanda, the reconciliation programs that followed, and presents 18 joint portraits of survivors and perpetrators.
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda was one of the most intimate and large-scale acts of violence of the 20th century. In just 100 days between 800,000 and one million people were killed. The book recalls these events and places them in the longer history of tensions between Hutus and Tutsis, colonial manipulation, ethnic propaganda, and civil war.
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The 1994 genocide in Rwanda was one of the most intimate and large-scale acts of violence of the 20th century. In just 100 days between 800,000 and one million people were killed. The book recalls these events and places them in the longer history of tensions between Hutus and Tutsis, colonial manipulation, ethnic propaganda, and civil war.
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About Blood Bonds:
Photographs by Jan Banning
Texts by Dick Wittenberg
ISBN 978-94-6226-550-9
Paperback / 160 x 240 mm / 152 Pages
Essay by Marjan Slob
Design by Victor Levie, Levievandermeer
Published by Lecturis (October 2025)
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