Susan Meiselas Quotes

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.

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 mysterious part of something not yet revealed.

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.

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

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

If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.

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.

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.