Fifteen years ago, the world understood the significance of some 800,000 Tutsis murdered by their Hutu countrymen. They called it the Rwandan Genocide, a name that was weighted with the horror and helplessness of both victim and those on the outside looking in. This bloody period, lasting one hundred days, has taken its place amongst history’s other savage episodes, but as is true of all such moments it is the survivors who must make normalcy from the chaos and carnage. How this is done can be as painful as the calamity itself. Rwanda’s Genocide has given rise to an entire generation of orphans tormented by their country’s horrifying blood let. They Once Were Children is the visual...

Congolese Tutsi rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda, is in his home town of Jomba, Democratic Republic of Congo, for a meeting with UN special envoy, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Nkunda and Obasanjo discussed a proposal for peace talks between Nkunda and the Congolese government, to which Nkunda replied, "If there is no negotiation, let us say then there is war."

24 April, celebration in memory of the Armenian genocide in Yerevan

The new chapter of Kathryn Cook's work on the memory of the Armenian genocide, this time among the Armenian communities of Jerusalem and Syria.

The PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party, is outlawed in Turkey and considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. The rebel group was founded by Abdullah Ocalan in the 1970s, with the goal of creating an independent Kurdish state. Ocalan was captured in 1999, but he remains a hero and continues to represent the Kurdish struggle. Women are allowed to become fighters in the PKK, unlike in the Turkish military. The three women's stories in this reportage offer an insight into what life was like as a PKK fighter during the height of the war (the PKK began its separatist campaign in 1984) and of what it might be like to be a fighter in the mountains of...

Kathryn Cook proposes a perspective on Istanbul, city of many influences, at the crossroads of East and West. Split by the Bosporus River, both riverbanks observe each other, they are in perpetual dialogue. Rather than a model of culture shock, Istanbul's history has been marked by contact between all sorts of civilizations.

On March 4th, 2010, the US congressional committee passed a resolution to recognize the Armenian genocide. "Memory Denied" explores the memory of the Armenian deportations and massacres that occurred during the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. Recognized as "genocide" today by more than a dozen countries, Turkey still vigorously rejects that claim. This project follows the remains and traces of an ambiguous, dark history - the definition of which is still being fought over nearly a century later.