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Susan Meiselas is an American documentary photographer who has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1976 and has been a full member since 1980. She is best known for her photographs of war-torn Nicaragua in the 1970s and her documentation of American carnival strippers [2].

Early Life and Education:

Meiselas was born on June 21, 1948, in Baltimore, Maryland.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 1970 and a Master of Arts in visual education from Harvard University.

Meiselas worked as an assistant film editor on the Frederick Wiseman documentary "Basic Training" after completing her master's degree.

From 1972 to 1974, she worked for the New York City public schools, running workshops for teachers and children and designing photography curricula.

In the mid-1970s, Meiselas began working on a project called the "Prince Street Girls," which features young and adolescent girls from Little Italy in New York City [2].

Photography Projects and Achievements:

Meiselas's first major photography project documented strippers at New England fairs and carnivals. This project resulted in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum and a book titled "Carnival Strippers" [2].

She documented the insurrection in Nicaragua and human rights issues in Latin America in the late 1970s. Her photographs from this project have been widely published and incorporated into local textbooks in Nicaragua.

Meiselas's most notable photograph from her Nicaraguan project is "Molotov Man," which became a symbol of the Sandinista revolution [2].

She visited El Salvador in 1981 and documented the El Mozote massacre.

Meiselas curated a photographic history of Kurdistan, resulting in the book "Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History" and a corresponding website called akaKurdistan [2].

In recent years, she worked on a project about women in refuges in the Black Country area of the West Midlands, England [2].

Publications:

Meiselas has published several books of her own photographs, including "Carnival Strippers," "Nicaragua, June 1978 – July 1979," "Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History," and "Pandora's Box" [2].

She has also edited and contributed to books such as "El Salvador: The Work of Thirty Photographers" and "Encounters with the Dani" [2].

Awards and Recognition:

Meiselas has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the MacArthur Fellowship, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize [2].