About the Author

Born in Maryland in 1948, Susan Meiselas has worked as a freelance documentary photographer since joining Magnum Photos in 1976. Her images, particularly those covering the hostilities in Central America during the insurrection, have been widely published and exhibited. Meiselas’ many books include Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), a project on the 100-year photographic history of Kurdistan, Pandora’s Box (2001), exploring a New York S&M club, and Tar Beach (2020). In 1992 she received a MacArthur Fellowship, in 2015 a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 2019 the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.