Susan Meiselas - Mediations - Grand Format

Susan Meiselas's practice of documentary photography started in the 1970s. Since then her work has never ceased to question the exchanges that occur with the individuals that she portrays. Each of her projects—many of which are long-term—challenges the photographic act and the role that the image has in our society. She became known through her work in conflict zones of Central America in the 1970s and 1980s, due to the strength of her colour photographs and their distribution by Magnum Photos, an agency she joined in 1976.
Covering many subjects and countries, from war to human rights issues and from cultural identity to the sex industry, Meiselas uses photography, film, video and often archive material, as she relentlessly explores and develops narratives integrating the participation of her subjects in her works. Presenting a selection of works from the 1970s through to the present day this book, Susan Meiselas. Mediations, emphasises the importance of the processes involved in the development of her projects and cover's more than forty years of work.