Meditations was Meiselas’ most comprehensive European retrospective to date, encompassing her early 1970s work up to the present day. For her exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, Meiselas presented Kurdistan/akaKurdistan, a project that reflects a near two-decade engagement with the Kurdish Diaspora that began in 1991 with a trip to capture the Anfal genocide against the Iraqi Kurds.

Brett Rogers OBE, chairman of the jury and director of The Photographers’ Gallery said, “Susan’s consistent approach to the medium and her personal investment in the stories, histories and communities she documents, exemplifies a critical revision to the possibilities of documentary photography. It is one that proposes a sustainable and on-going relationship with the people and their contexts and feels especially relevant and resonant today.”

The work of all 2019 shortlisted artists, Laia Abril, Arwed Messmer, Susan Meiselas and Mark Ruwedel, remains on display at The Photographers’ Gallery until 2 June 2019. The show will then tour to the Deutsche Börse’s headquarters in Eschborn/Frankfurt from 14 June until 23 August 2019.

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