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). Most recently, she received the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles (2019), the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (2019), and the Erich Salomon Award of the German Society for Photography (2022). Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was initiated by the Jeu de Paume in Paris and traveled to Fundació Antoni Tàpies, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Instituto Moreira Salles in São Paulo, among others.
Sumeja Tulić is a Libyan-born Bosnian visual anthropologist and writer whose work delves into the intersection of visuality, history, conflict, and everything else that lies between the two.
Her career began with human rights advocacy in the former Yugoslavia, where she worked on issues like hate crimes, discrimination, and wartime sexual violence before transitioning to academic and creative explorations of cultural dynamics of illegibility in post-socialist conflict zones.
Sumeja's academic path includes a BA in Law and an MA in Human Rights and Democracy from the University of Sarajevo, an MA in Journalism from CUNY, and an MFA in Art Writing from the School of Visual Arts. She is currently a PhD student of Cultural Anthropology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
