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‘What is it that keeps you wanting to survive?’ Giles Duley and Rwandan genocide survivor Olive Mutetamfura on resilience and forgiveness
The photographer, who lost his legs and an arm in Afghanistan, says the genocide survivor is the ‘most resilient woman I know’. The pair have teamed up, 30 years after the atrocity, to tell her extraordinary story
In an elegant early Victorian building called the Organ Factory in London’s East End, Giles Duley, the photographer, presenter, chef and charity CEO, is addressing an event to mark his 53rd birthday and what should have been the visit of Olive Mutetamfura, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.
“Olive is unable to be here because immigration decided to revoke her visa,” he explains to around 100 people, wryly observing that her rejection is “a story that is somewhat appropriate” to the times.
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