On April 7, 1994, the Rwandan genocide began, costing an estimated 800,000 lives in 100 days. Many of the perpetrators went to prison. After serving their sentences, most of them returned to their villages. Survivors and perpetrators now had to live together again. How did these communities cope 30 years after the genocide? Photographic artist Jan Banning went to the Rwandan countryside to create double portraits of survivors with the men (and sometimes women) who had been involved in the slaughter of their partners, parents, children, and siblings, and with whom they had reconciled.
