Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice. – Mother Jones

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Susan Meiselas’ Work Has Changed How We Think About Photojournalism. Her Retrospective Actually Does It Justice.

“Every picture tells a story and has another story behind it: Who’s photographed? Who made it? Who found it? How did it survive?”

via Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/susan-meiselas-work-has-changed-how-we-think-about-photojournalism-her-retrospective-actually-does-it-justice/

It was fitting that not long before the opening of her major retrospective at the San Francisco MoMA this summer, Susan Meiselas was back in Nicaragua, making photos. Her coverage of the Nicaraguan revolution 40 years ago helped launch her career; now, at the opening of her exhibition in mid-July, she lamented the current state of the Central American country, once again embroiled in a violent revolution to overthrow a repressive government. The script has flipped with Daniel Ortega, brought to power by the Sandinasta revolution that Meiselas covered, accused of a brutal crackdown on protesters.