CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/18/2019

Congratulations Susan Meiselas, winner of the 2019 Deutsche Börse photography prize!

This year's Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize has been awarded to Susan Meiselas, whose socially-driven work has influenced decades of documentary photographers. In specific, the prize was awarded for Meiselas' 2018 traveling retrospective, Mediations, which originated at the Jeu de Paume in Paris and concluded at SFMOMA. Featured here are three spreads from the appropriately restrained and scholarly exhibition catalog, published by Damiani. In it, Meiselas acknowledges the importance of the role of the image as a means of ongoing recognition, commenting on "those photographs that provide people with a sense of who they have been, in order perhaps to make sense of who they are and who they will be." She continues, "This experience has reaffirmed for me the value and the importance of documentary photography, and at the same time it has made me even more aware of how complex the act of reading meaning from photographs can be."