I'm deeply interested in the photograph as a record of an encounter and enjoy putting myself in a timeline of image-makers, alongside other travelers…

- Susan Meiselas

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

- Susan Meiselas

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each image is a…

- Susan Meiselas

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.

- Susan Meiselas

There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.

- Susan Meiselas

For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.

- Susan Meiselas

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

- Susan Meiselas

I think photography has a huge potential to expand a circle of knowledge. There's a reality that we are all the more linked globally and we have to k…

- Susan Meiselas

What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amoun…

- Susan Meiselas