Conversation | Lucy Gallun x Susan Meiselas
Channel: PhotoKTM
Date: 2023-06-08

Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos since 1976. She is the author of Carnival Strippers, Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, Pandora’s Box, Encounters with the Dani and A Room of Their Own. She has co-edited three collections: El Salvador: Work of 30 Photographers, Chile from Within and most recently, Tar Beach. Meiselas has also co-directed three films: Living at Risk and Pictures from a Revolution with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti and Reframing History where she returned again to Nicaragua and placed her photographs of the popular insurrection in the landscape where they were first taken.

Lucy Gallun is The Peter Schub Associate Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. In her over 12 years at MoMA, Lucy has curated multiple exhibitions, including three iterations of the Museum’s New Photography exhibition series and two iterations of the Elaine Dannheisser Projects exhibition series, among many other projects. Lucy was co-editor and contributing author of Photography at MoMA, a three-volume history of photography at the Museum, and has contributed to numerous publications within and outside MoMA. Her most recent MoMA title is Robert Frank: Trolley—New Orleans, part of the Museum’s One on One book series. Prior to joining the Department of Photography at MoMA, Lucy was the Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia, and she was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP).