THE WORLD OF Susan Meiselas

Susan Meiselas (b. 1948, Baltimore) is an American documentary photographer who joined Magnum Photos in 1976. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College and received an M.A. in visual education from Harvard University. Her early project Carnival Strippers (1976) examined the working lives of women in traveling strip shows in the northeastern United States, establishing her interest in long-term, socially grounded research.

In the late 1970s Meiselas documented the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, producing some of the most widely circulated images of the conflict, including Molotov Man. The photographs were central to international media coverage and later generated debate about the afterlives of documentary images and questions of authorship. She subsequently co-edited Chile from Within (1990) with local photographers to record resistance under the Pinochet regime.

Her later projects broadened into archival and collaborative practice, notably Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), which combined found photographs and oral testimonies to reconstruct cultural memory, and A Room of Their Own (2017), a study of women’s refuges in the UK. Meiselas’s work is represented in major collections, and in 2019 she was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.

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