Biography Susan Meiselas was born in Maryland in 1948. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.A. in visual education from Harvard University. She joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and has worked as a free lance photographer since then. Meiselas' coverage of hostilities in Central America during the insurrection was published worldwide. She was presented the Robert Capa Gold Medal for »outstanding courage and reporting« by the Overseas Press Club in 1979 for her work in Nicaragua. Two books have resulted from her photographic essays: the first, CARNIVAL STRIPPERS (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1976), and a second, NICARAGUA (Pantheon, 1981). Meiselas served as an editor and contributor to the book EL SALVADOR: THE WORK OF THIRTY PHOTOGRAPHERS (Pantheon, 1983) and edited with Chilean photographers their work from the 1973 coup throughout the Pinochet regime in CHILE FROM WITHIN (W.W. Norton, 1991). She has co-directed and completed two films: »Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family« (1986) and »Pictures from a Revolution« (1991) with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti. Her most recent project resulted in the book KURDISTAN: IN THE SHADOW OF HISTORY (Random House, 1997), a traveling exhibition, and the website, akaKURDISTAN Meiselas has had one-woman shows in New York, Chicago, London, Stockholm and Paris, and has participated in many travelling group shows. Her work has been collected by both American and European museums. She has received the Leica Award for Excellence (1982); the Photojournalist of the Year Award from the ASMP (1982); a Photographer's Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1984; and an honorary degree in Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in 1986. Susan Meiselas was named a MacAuthur Fellow in 1992. She received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for her coverage of Latin America and the Hasselblad Foundation Photography prize in 1994. Meiselas Studio 256 Mott Street NYC 10012 USA t: 212 431 3780 f: 212 966 4786 e: smeiselas@aol.com meryl@akaKURDISTAN.com