Susan Meiselas

There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Susan Meiselas

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

— 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…

— 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…

— Susan Meiselas

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.

— 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…

— 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…

— Susan Meiselas