{"id":20420,"date":"2022-02-02T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=20420"},"modified":"2022-03-22T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:42:39","slug":"susan-meiselas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/susan-meiselas\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Meiselas"},"content":{"rendered":"Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(1976), Nicaragua<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History<\/strong><\/em> (1997), Pandora\u2019s Box<\/strong><\/em> (2001), Encounters with the Dani<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(2003) Prince Street Girls<\/strong><\/em> (2016), A Room Of Their Own<\/strong><\/em> (2017) and Tar Beach<\/strong><\/em> (2020).
\nMeiselas 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 B\u00f6rse Photography Foundation Prize (2019) and the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d\u2019Arles. Mediations<\/strong><\/em>, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was recently exhibited at the Fundaci\u00f3 Antoni T\u00e0pies, Jeu de Paume, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Instituto Moreira Salles in S\u00e3o Paulo and is presently on view at the Kunst Haus Wien. Mediations<\/em> also opens at C\/O<\/strong> Berlin on April 29, 2022.
\nShe has been the President of the Magnum Foundation<\/u><\/strong><\/a> since 2007, with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.<\/p>\n

www.susanmeiselas.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\n \n Dee and Lisa on Mott Street. Little Italy. New York City. 1976. \u00a9 Susan Meiselas\/Magnum Photos<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a>\n \n Mary Childress. South Carolina, 1974. \u00a9 Susan Meiselas\/Magnum Photos<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a>\n \n Lena on the Bally Box. Essex Junction, Vermont. 1973. \u00a9 Susan Meiselas\/Magnum Photos<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a>\n \n Soldiers search bus passengers along the Northern Highway. El Salvador. 1980. \u00a9 Susan Meiselas\/Magnum Photos<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a>\n \n Sandinistas at the walls of the Esteli National Guard headquarters. Esteli. Nicaragua. 1979. \u00a9 Susan Meiselas\/Magnum Photos<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a>\n \n Photographs of Kamaran Abdullah Saber 20 years old, held by his family at Saiwan Hill cemetery. He was killed in July 1991 during a student demonstration against Saddam Hussein. Kurdistan. 1991. \u00a9 Susan Meiselas\/Magnum Photos<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a>\n \n Liberty Plaza. New York City. September 11, 2001. \u00a9 Susan Meiselas\/Magnum Photos<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a>\n \n Tia in the garden, a refuge in the Black Country, UK. 2015. \u00a9 Susan Meiselas\/Magnum Photos<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers\u00a0(1976), Nicaragua\u00a0(1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora\u2019s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani\u00a0(2003) Prince Street Girls (2016), A Room Of Their Own (2017) and Tar Beach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126,537],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20420"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23616,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20420\/revisions\/23616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}