If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection. — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is,… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers,… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole.… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence. — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks. — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share
