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, received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and most recently the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019) and the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles. Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to the present was recently exhibited at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Jeu de Paume, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo, Kunst Haus Wien, C/O Berlin, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, and FOMU in Antwerp.
She has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.
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Documentary Photographer and President of the Magnum Foundation
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