Finding 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 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 MeiselasI see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.
Susan Meiselas