Susan Meiselas, USA
Susan Meiselas (born 1948) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. After receiving an M.A. from Harvard University, she joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. Meiselas is best known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentary photos of carnival strippers in the 1970s. She has recently completed a six-year project on a visual history of Kurdistan and established a Web site to further that investigation. Meiselas is a recipient of the 1992 MacArthur Fellowship as well as a number of other awards including the Robert Capa Gold Medal for "outstanding courage and reporting" (1978, for her coverage in Nicaragua). Her photographs have been published worldwide in the pages of Time, The New York Times, and Paris Match and Life. Meiselas is the author of several books including; Carnival Strippers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976), Nicaragua (Pantheon, 1981) and Pandora's Box (Trebruk, 1999). Meiselas currently lives in New York City.
Meiselas's photographic work in the aftermath of the destruction of Kurdish villages by Saddam Hussein's Anfal campaign led to a six-year exploration of the visual history of Kurdistan called Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997). The Web site akaKURDISTAN.com: A Place for Collective Memory and Cultural Exchange is continually evolving through contributions from site visitors including Kurds around the world.
http://www.susanmeiselas.com
http://www.akakurdistan.com