Photographers in Focus: Susan Meiselas

For over four decades, American photographer Susan Meiselas has captured people caught in the seismic upheavals of history—whether documenting Nicaraguans fighting for their lives, or photographing carnival strippers making a living on the fringes of US society. It shows an incredible tenacity, and an unflinching refusal to look away, when confronting subjects such as mass graves in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, or the victims of domestic violence in San Francisco. In this profile of the great photographer, the th