I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally and we have to know about each other. Photography gives us that opportunity.
Susan MeiselasI see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.
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 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 MeiselasI'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers, such as anthropologists, colonists, missionaries, even tourists. I do that to emphasize subjectivity, rather than privilege any single perspective - I see myself as only one of many storytellers.
Susan Meiselas