My Big Fat Ugandan Wedding

In early 2009, Photo MA students Becky Matthews and Clare Struthers traveled to an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Pader, Northern Uganda, to meet and document six Acholi tribes women as they married at a seminal mass ceremony. During twenty years of civil war these women have suffered the most losing their homes and livelihoods. Often facing abduction,
abject poverty, sexual abuse, mutilation and death. Following the 2006 peace process,
relative calm has been restored to the region. The wedding of these six women is symbolic
of the new start facing all women in Uganda, as they form the foundation for stronger
communities and a stronger country....more