What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amount of images, or they can't distinguish anymore between Rwanda or Bosnia or Somalia.
Susan MeiselasFor a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.
Susan MeiselasThere is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.
Susan MeiselasFinding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. Thereโs no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.
Susan Meiselas