Eyes Open: 23 Photography Projects for Curious Kids

by Susan Meiselas

Compiled by Magnum photojournalist Susan Meiselas, Eyes Open is a sourcebook of photography ideas for kids--to engage with the world through the camera.

Forty-one enticing projects help inspire a process of discovery and new ways of telling stories and animating ideas. Eyes Open features photographs by young people from around the globe--providing a window into different cultures--as well as work by professional artists that demonstrates how a simple idea can be expanded. Playful and meaningful, this book is for young would-be photographers and those interested in expressing themselves creatively.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction

160 pages, Hardcover

Published April 27, 2021

About the author

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 (2019), and the Erich Salomon Award of the German Society for Photography (2022). Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was initiated by the Jeu de Paume in Paris and traveled to Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo, among others.

Meiselas has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.

Reviews

[Eliška · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely <3

[Lily · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish I had a kid in my life to do this with! This book is cool! It's creative activities around photos that would be a fun way to spend an afternoon. The activities are clever and have historic and contemporary examples from famous artists and professionals that also serve as an overview of photographic theory and history.

[CharityJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

The title says for kids but really this is for anyone who's into photography. Good prompts for photogs and great photos.

[Hendi Basuki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Buku yang bagus untuk memulai belajar tentang fotografi.
Bagus untuk mengasah kita untuk fokus saat memotret.
Beberapa ide project di buku ini menarik dan seru untuk dicoba.

[Jason Li · Rating 5 out of 5]

Basically the perfect teaching book. How to take photographs and also a method for how to learn.