There 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 MeiselasWhat 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 MeiselasIf Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.
Susan MeiselasWe know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.
Susan Meiselas