Susan Meiselas & Carolyn Drake.

Digging Deeper.

Susan and Carolyn will provide an opportunity to speak, listen, and think deeply about your work and that of others. Through group and one-on-one meetings, Susan Meiselas and Carolyn Drake will share their varied experiences researching and creating projects including editing, sequencing, and presenting projects in book and exhibition form. Each student will have dedicated time to present their own work in progress.

 

In a relaxed atmosphere, we will discuss the emotional, intellectual and social/political aspects of your work and explore ideas for how to expand it or give it greater coherence.

 

We are open to creative as well as documentary and multi-layered approaches and will encourage you to identify your motivations, to take risks, and push yourself beyond your comfort zone, to inspire and evolve the best form for your work.

 

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. She is the author of Carnival Strippers (1976), Nicaragua (1981), Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (1997), Pandora’s Box (2001), Encounters with the Dani (2003), Prince Street Girls (2016), A Room of Their Own (2017), Tar Beach (2020) and Carnival Strippers Revisited (2022). Meiselas is well known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. Her photographs are included in North American and international collections. In 1992 she was made a MacArthur Fellow, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015, and most recently the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles (2019). Mediations, a survey exhibition of her work from the 1970s to present was initiated by Jeu de Paume and traveled to Barcelona, San Francisco, Brazil, Vienna, Belgium, Germany and is presently on view at Jakopič Galerija in Ljubljiana, Slovenia. Meiselas has been President of the Magnum Foundation since 2007, with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.

 

 

Carolyn Drake works on long-term, photo-based projects seeking to interrogate  dominant historical narratives and creatively reimagine them.  Her practice embraces collaboration and has in recent years melded photography with sewing, collage, and sculpture. She has published five photo books, including Two Rivers (2013), Wild Pigeon (2014), Internat (2017), Knit Club (2020), and Men Untitled (2023). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, and a Fulbright fellowship, among other prizes, and she is based in Vallejo, California.