University at Albany Fine Art Collections : UAlbany Artwork : Sick, Abandoned, Rwandan Hutu children in a dispensary, Goma, Zaire, from the book The Silence, Chapter 2, Purgatory [19991642B]

[ Artwork description: A black and white photograph of four children standing in front of a light colored wall with a pattern-printed blanket. One child stands, while looking away from the camera in distress. The rest of the young people sit. Some of the sitting children are wrapped in blankets, while another is also naked. The children without blankets also expose white wristbands on one of their wrists. ]

Gilles Peress

Sick, Abandoned, Rwandan Hutu children in a dispensary, Goma, Zaire, from the book The Silence, Chapter 2, Purgatory , 1994

Artwork Type: Photographs

Medium: Gelatin silver print on paper

Dimensions: 12 x 19 in. (31.75 x 48.26 cm)

Accession #: 19991642B

Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , gift of Adam Brown

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Gilles Peress

Sick, Abandoned, Rwandan Hutu children in a dispensary, Goma, Zaire, from the book The Silence, Chapter 2, Purgatory , 1994

Artwork Type: Photographs

Medium: Gelatin silver print on paper

Dimensions: 12 x 19 in. (31.75 x 48.26 cm)

Accession #: 19991642B

Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation , gift of Adam Brown

Copyright: © Gilles Peress