Curriculum

For Susan Meiselas, the story always comes first. An influential documentarian, Meiselas came to photo-world prominence with the publication of , in 1976, and , in 1981. She insists on context: her photographs are often prefaced by an explanation of the political situation as told by her subjects and, when possible, are accompanied by audio or even augmented-reality interviews. Her most recent series, (2015–16), is a collaboration with victims of domestic violence in the U.K. Meiselas writes that “the stories they had hidden within themselves were no