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Photographer Susan Meiselas has spent decades making history visible. Meiselas
doesn’t look–she sees–and her photographs remind us of the importance and power of
bearing witness to our world. Documenting strippers in New England carnivals, conflict
in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and the plight of the Kurds in the Middle East, her visually
stunning work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Meiselas has been widely acclaimed for her ethical approach to photographing social
and political turmoil, displaced peoples, and the strength of the human spirit. Meiselas
received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, and her MA in visual
education from Harvard University.
Alexandra Cuesta’s work combines experimental film traditions and documentary practices. She commences from the public sphere and explores poetic and subjective representations of reality. Social structures, instances of displacement, and cultural diasporas, are some of the recurring concerning...
Published 03/27/18
Tomislav Longinovic is professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and published fiction writer in both English and his native Serbo-Croatian. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, and his...
Published 10/20/17