Susan Meiselas was twenty-four years old when she began photographing the women of carnival strip shows, in 1972. The following three summers, at small-town fairgrounds on the East Coast ...

Susan Meiselas is announced as the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Photography of the Sony World Photography Awards 2025.

Susan Meiselas is a contemporary American photographer known for her documentation of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua and her photobook Carnival Strippers (1976). “The camera is an excuse to be ...