Rwandan rape victim the subject of prize portrait

A PORTRAIT of a woman embracing the daughter she gave birth to after being raped during the Rwandan genocide has won the National Portrait Gallery’s Photographic Portrait Prize.

Jonathan Torgovnik, 38, photographed Joseline Ingabire with her two children, both born during the Rwandan conflict.

Ms Ingabire is pictured embracing her second daughter, Leah Batamuliza, while her first daughter Hossiana is in the background in front of their mud-walled home.