ICP’s museum, cafe, and shop are closed, October 12-14, while we prepare for the opening of new exhibitions, I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers from the 1950s to Now and Laia Abril: On Rape and Institutional Failure. Please join us on Thursday, October 15 for opening day!

Kinny Mattia tries to feel the morning light. "Milton Margai" is the only school for the blind in Sierra Leone. Approx. 85 children, 4 to 18 yrs old, study and live here. In 1998, when RUF-rebels attacked Freetown, the school had to be evacuated. In

Kinny Mattia tries to feel the morning light. "Milton Margai" is the only school for the blind in Sierra Leone. Approx. 85 children, 4 to 18 yrs old, study and live here. In 1998, when RUF-rebels attacked Freetown, the school had to be evacuated. In

Image: 8 7/8 x 13 1/4 in. (22.5 x 33.7 cm)
Paper: 13 x 18 1/4 in. (33 x 46.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Photographer to the W. Eugene Smith Legacy Collection, 2012
Accession No. 2012.27.1