I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a … - Susan Meiselas

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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, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.

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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 separation.

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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. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.

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

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There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.

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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.

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