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November 13, 2003
Jenny Matthews
Presentation and Discussion
5:30 p.m., Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center
 War
is overwhelmingly a male occupation. Yet its victims are often civilians
-- many among them women and children.
In Women
and War, Jenny Matthews gives a voice to this silent majority
of casualties through a series of deeply moving -- sometimes disturbing
-- photographs of human subjects in the midst of war and conflict
wherever they are found.
Twenty years of visual and written diaries tell of
human struggle around the world -- in Nicaragua, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan,
Burma, Chechnya, Haiti, the United Kingdom, Guatemala, and Sudan,
among others. Jenny Matthews documents women and the roles they
play -- avoiding, coping, confronting, participating -- as well
as the emotions they experience: anger, fear, despair, joy, hope,
terror.
Jenny Matthews records the stories of the people she
photographs, both visually and with written diaries that underscore
the immediacy of the images, drawing connections between the different
countries. Above all her book is a celebration of the lives of women,
and how their role as actual or potential mothers changes their
relationship to war.
Jenny Matthews, freelance
photographer and filmmaker, chronicles the devastating effects of
armed conflict on women. Her work has been exhibited by Oxfam and
Womankind Worldwide, and has appeared in magazines such as Mother
Jones.
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