Photo|Frome – Susan Meiselas

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).

Photo|Frome is delighted to be showing a selection of Susan’s ‘Nicaragua’ work. Still considered by some to be her signature work, these startling colour photographs of the lead-up to the overthrow of the Somoza regime and subsequent Sandinista victory were widely distributed in the international press and published in the 1981 book ‘Nicaragua’. A landmark in war photography for its pioneering and controversial use of colour, Susan’s work in Nicaragua remains a paragon of engaged, subjective documentary coverage.