Susan Meiselas holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and a MA in Visual Education from Harvard University. She joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. She is best known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. She also contributed to the book El Salvador: The Work of Thirty Photographers (1983) and edited Chile from Within (1991). Meiselas has co-directed two films: Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family (1986) and Pictures from a Revolution (1991). In 1997, she curated a photographic history of Kurdistan, and integrated her own work into the book entitled Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History. In connection to this project, she created an online archive of collective memory, as well as an exhibition that traveled to venues in the United States and Europe.

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