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> [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, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/i-m-deeply-interested-in-the-photograph-as-a-record-of-an-encounter/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

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## More by Susan Meiselas

> [There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/there-is-so-much-more-to-the-things-that-we-think-we-know-from-afar/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/i-m-deeply-interested-in-the-photograph-as-a-record-of-an-encounter/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/what-worries-me-is-that-we-want-to-close-down-our-relationship-to-the/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/finding-a-photograph-is-often-like-picking-up-a-piece-from-a-jigsaw/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

> [ I see myself in \[the\] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/i-see-myself-in-the-tradition-of-encounter-and-witness-a-witness-that/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/i-think-photography-has-a-huge-potential-to-expand-a-circle-of/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/the-camera-is-an-excuse-to-be-someplace-you-otherwise-don-t-belong-it/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

> [We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/we-know-photographers-make-frames-but-we-deeply-believe-they-can-also/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/if-instagram-had-been-available-when-i-was-working-in-nicaragua-in/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-meiselas/for-a-long-time-i-ve-lived-with-the-inadequacy-of-that-frame-to-tell/)

[Susan Meiselas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-meiselas/)

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