Susan Meiselas

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Susan Meiselas


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in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States
June 21, 1948

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Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani (2003) Prince Street Girls (2016), A Room Of Their Own (2017), Tar Beach (2020), and Carnival Strippers Revisited (2022).

Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow and received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015). Most recently, she received the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles (2019), the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (201
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Carnival Strippers

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Nicaragua

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Kurdistan: In the Shadow of...

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Eyes Open: 23 Photography P...

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Susan Meiselas: On the Fron...

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Susan Meiselas: Mediations

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Susan Meiselas: In History

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“The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.”
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