Artist Talk: Photographer Susan Meiselas and Jeff Rosenheim

Lena on the Bally Box, Essex Junction, Vermont, 1973 ©Susan Meiselas

Stiller Auditorium

Join us for a conversation between Susan Meiselas, a documentary photographer based in New York, and Jeff Rosenheim, the Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani (2003), Prince Street Girls (2016), A Room of Their Own (2017), Tar Beach (2020) and Carnival Strippers Revisited (2022). Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and most recently the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles (2019). Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was initiated by Jeu de Paume and traveled to Barcelona, San Francisco, Brazil, Vienna, Belgium, Germany and Jakopič Galerija in Ljubljiana, Slovenia. Meiselas has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.

Seating is limited; online registration required.

Cost: Museum Admission / Members FREE