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Susan Meiselas

  • Dhana, from the series The Afronauts, 2011.

    Surprise! Magnum celebrates the unexpected – in pictures

    From a squadron of flying foxes to two men casually sitting on a train roof, photographers reveal the stories behind the images chosen for Magnum’s latest print sale, which takes chance as its theme
  • Untitled portrait by Seydou Keïta, 1950s

    Take a stand! Photography's finest posers – in pictures

    From carnival girls to celebrities forced into corners, these portraits show how getting subjects to pose can be an art form all in itself
  • Susan Meiselas’s New Girl

    Anatomy of an artwork
    Susan Meiselas’s New Girl: exploitation and empowerment

    The American photographer captures the grim reality and the fantasy associated with carnival strippers
  • Armed and masked … Meiselas with an image of Nicaraguan rebels wearing traditional masks and holding bombs, at Paris’s Jeu de Paume last year.

    'Especially relevant': Susan Meiselas wins 2019 Deutsche Börse photography prize

    From displaced Kurds to carnival strippers, documentarian praised for carving ‘a new form of socially engaged photography’ by getting close to long-term subjects
  • RAF No Evidence/Kein Beweis, 2017 © Arwed Messmer: research, concept and editing; source: Berlin Police Historical Collection, 2018

    Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize 2019 – in pictures

    The four artists shortlisted for the 2019 Deutsche Börse prize are Laia Abril, Susan Meiselas, Arwed Messmer and Mark Ruwedel. Here is a selection of their work
  • Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins at Barbican 2018 8. Philippe Chancel, Untitled 1982, from Rebel's Paris, Melanie Rio Fluency France

    Best culture 2018
    Top 10 photography shows of 2018

    We had junkie shocks from Larry Clark, bathtub selfies from Masahisa Fukase, girl gangs from Susan Meiselas – and models and mailmen from Saul Leiter
  • Lena after the show, Essex Junction, Vermont, 1973, part of the Mediations show at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.

    Susan Meiselas: from the dressing room to the danger zone - in pictures

  • Six weeks at the frontline … a detail from Molotov Man, Estelí, Nicaragua, which appears in Mediations a the Jeu de Paume.

    Susan Meiselas on how she shot Molotov men, war widows and carnival strippers

  • The Passion of Rome, 1986.

    Celebrating the female gaze: women photographing women – in pictures

    Women Seeing Women celebrates the work of female photographers in documentary and fashion photography, and their interaction with their female subjects
  • UK. 2015. A refuge in the Black Country. Ann, Room 12A.

    Photographer Susan Meiselas on documenting women’s refuges

    The revered Magnum photojournalist worked with shelter residents on a new book, A Room of Their Own
  • UK. 2016. A refuge in the Black Country. Aisha, Room 1.

    A Room of Their Own: Women's refuges - in pictures

    Susan Meiselas documents women’s refuges
  • Two women kissing in a standing embrace, the long, dark curly hair of one obscuring their faces.

    The female gaze through 70 years of Magnum

    As Magnum celebrates its 70th anniversary, Giles Tremlett looks at the role women have played in the agency’s story
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CANADA. Lambton County, Ontario. 1989. Ann and Naomi TOWELL lying in bed. Ann is pregnant with Noah. Noah was born about a month after this photo was taken.
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    In bed with everyone: photographers pick their most intimate shots – in pictures

    Death between the sheets, a preacher exorcising a child, a prostitute and her client, and a smile from Blanchon the beluga whale ... Magnum photographers share the stories and secrets behind their most private pictures
  • Exposed ... Koreme, North of Iraq, June 1992 photographed by Susan Meiselas.

    Sean O'Hagan on photography
    Crime, seen: a history of photographing atrocities

    From Joseph Mengele’s skull to Gaza’s bombed-out buildings, a new exhibition presents a visual record of acts of violence in chilling detail
  • CHINA. Beijing. Tiananmen square. 26 May 1989.

    ‘The gun was loaded’: photographers on the shots that changed their lives

    From Belfast to Tiananmen Square by way of a quick game of Russian roulette, Magnum photographers choose the image that changed everything
  • A woman in a Hijab in Marrakech

    Marrakech: The city that distrusts photographers

    In two years the world's largest photography museum will open in Marrakech. As part of the preparations, five Magnum photographers spent eight days documenting life in the Moroccan city
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    Marrakech: The city that distrusts photographers

    Marrakech: The city that distrusts photographers will open a museum in Marrakech

  • Tom Stoddart’s shot of a mother evacuating her son from Sarajevo in 1992

    The artists' artist
    The artists' artist: reportage photographers

    Leading snappers choose their favourite living reportage photographer

  • Dani tribeswoman walking on a road through the Baliem Valley, Indonesia, 1989

    My best shot
    Photographer Susan Meiselas's best shot

    'The Dani people were seen as almost stone-age. This road changed all that'

  • Susan Meiselas

    In focus
    Photographer Susan Meiselas: 'Why am I making this picture?'

    Liz Jobey continues her series on photography books with the American Susan Meisalas, who, whether documenting showgirls in the States or assassinations in Nicaragua, has never shied away from difficult questions

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