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Susan Meiselas is one of the most celebrated photographers of our time. Known for her ground-breaking photography in Latin America and around the world, Meiselas’s work has garnered the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles in 2019 and is currently the subject of a traveling retrospective exhibition. Lindsay Morris is a published photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, and Vanity Fair, among others. Her work reaches beyond photography and in October of this year, she will take the stage as a TEDWomen Speaker. Come hear Susan and Lindsay in dialogue and learn the art of documenting human stories.
Meiselas’s steadfast approach to photography prioritizes the image over the artist. Grounded in immersion, Susan has spent more than five decades focusing on the lives, stories, and perspectives of subjects on the edge of the mainstream. Seeking to dispel ignorance and foster an expanding worldview, Meiselas has remained ardent in her belief that the relationship with her subjects, the key to producing work that illuminates their story, is immersion, collaboration, and fully understanding their perspective.
Morris has grounded herself in the documentation of her personal life and the stories of her surrounding community. Documenting the experience of a weekend summer camp for gender-expansive children and their families, Morris garnered worldwide attention for her work, which reached “beyond the confines of the camp” and contributed “to a dialogue about the crucial role support plays.”
Join us for what is sure to be an insightful discussion offering insight and wisdom to any inspiring photojournalist, documentary filmmaker, storyteller, and inquiring mind. Susan’s and Lindsay’s work are part of our exhibition RE:CYCLE – The Ubiquitous Bike, and can be viewed during our exhibition hours, Wed–Sun from 12 PM to 5 PM. Following the discussion between the two there will be a Q&A. What will you ask?
Photo by Meryl Levin
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Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani (2003), Prince Street Girls (2016), A Room of Their Own (2017), Tar Beach (2020) and Carnival Strippers Revisited (2022). Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and most recently the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles (2019). Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was initiated by Jeu de Paume and traveled to Barcelona, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, Vienna, Antwerp, Berlin and is presently on view at Jakopič Galerija in Ljubljiana, Slovenia. Meiselas has been the President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.
Photo Courtesy the Artist
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Lindsay Morris is a photographer best known for documenting events in her personal life and surrounding community. Morris received her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art and continued her photographic studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The School for International Training, and at the University of Michigan. Lindsay’s work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, TIME Magazine, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair, Scientific American, GEO International, Marie Claire, Elle, and Internazionale. Morris is a producer of the 2016 BBC documentary, My Transgender Summer Camp, and published her monograph, You Are You, documenting a summer camp for gender-creative children and their families in collaboration with Kehrer Verlag. She will take the stage as a TEDWomen speaker in October, 2023. Exhibitions include Prix de la Photographie, “State of the World,” Paris (November 2023), The Leiber Collection, East Hampton, NY, ICP, NY; The Newport Art Museum, RI; Parrish Art Museum, NY; Hamburg Triennial, Germany; Fotofest, Houston; Photoville Brooklyn, NY; Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago; and solo exhibitions at Guild Hall Art Museum, East Hampton, NY; Arts Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton, NY; Clamp Art, NY; and Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO.