Susan Meiselas

Susan Meiselas (born 1948) is an American photographer. Meiselas was born in Maryland. After taking a BA at Sarah Lawrence College and an MA at Harvard University, she joined Magnum Photos co-operative in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. In 1981, she visited a village destroyed by the armed forces in San Salvador and took pictures of the El Mozote massacre. In 1992, Meiselas was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She was awarded the Hasselblad Award in 1994.