Born in Maryland in 1948, Susan has an M.A. in
education from Harvard. She then worked as an assistant film editor and photographic
advisor, and developed curricula using photography and animated film, set up programmes
and ran workshops for children in the south Bronx and rural southern schools. Her first
major photographic essay focused on the lives of carnival strippers in New England, she
joined Magnum Photos in 1976. Covering hostilities in Central America for magazines such
as The New York Times, London Times, Time, Geo and Paris Match led to The Robert Capa Gold
Medal for "outstanding courage and reporting" for her work in Nicaragua. Carnival
Strippers was published in 1976 and Nicaragua in 1981. Chile from Within,
published in 1991, with Chilean photographers, covered the coup through the Pinochet
regime. Her films include Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family (1986) and
Pictures from a Revolution (1991), with Richard Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti. Susan
has had numerous one-woman shows in New York, Chicago, London and Paris, her work is
collected by both American and European museums. In addition to the Capa Medal, numerous
awards include, the Leica Award for Excellence (1982), Photographers' Fellowship from the
National Endowment of the Arts (1984). Macauthur Fellow 1992 and the Hasselblad Foundation
Prize (1994). 1997 sees the publication of a major work on the history of the Kurds.
Previous Workshop synopsis:
Each participant will be asked to complete a reportage, choosing a portrait of a person,
group or place. They will shoot daily, edit collectively, and at the end of the week be
expected to give a presentation to the group in the form of book, magazine spread,
exhibition plan or audio/visual. The workshop emphasises process - moving from defining a
subject to finding a means of representation. It also reveals the working methods of
others and raises issues, both ethical and political, involved in photography and
production.
Susan Meiselas at Duckspool
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