SUSAN MEISELAS: "Susan Meiselas in Conversation with David Campany"

Susan Meiselas in Conversation with David Campany

Carnival Strippers, 1973
Susan Meiselas in Conversation with David Campany

DAVID CAMPANY: Much of your work seems to be based very much on process, particularly more recent work such as the Kurdistan project and ‘Encounters with the Dani’. Obviously w

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I don’t go in with a concept, the concept evolves and becomes self-evident at a certain moment in the process. In time one accumulates ideas of what’s possible. With each of my projects I’ve come to the idea of what they should be in the midst of them. This has been so from early projects like ‘Carnival Strippers’ right up to ‘Encounters with the Dani’. And of course very often, between shows and books, they have slightly different forms.