Lucie Talks: Conversation with Aldeide Delgado, Susan Meiselas, and Sarah Meister

Join the Lucie Foundation, WOPHA Congress, and Aperture as Susan Meiselas, 2008 Lucie Honoree for Achievement in Photojournalism, and Sarah Meister, executive director of Aperture, discuss their work in a conversation moderated by Aldeide Delgado, founder and director of the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA).

This Lucie Talks panel will center on the panelists’ educational work, recent projects, and feminist practices while focusing on the concept of radical pedagogies. This conversation serves as a prelude to the second edition of the WOPHA Congress: How Photography Teaches Us to Live Now, where organizations of women photographers from around the world, along with internationally renowned art historians, artists, and curators—including Meister and Meiselas—will gather in Miami from October 23 to October 26, 2024. Together, they will highlight the significant contributions of women and nonbinary photographers to contemporary art and examine how women can lead the way in developing innovative strategies for advancing photography education.

This virtual program is free and open to all. The Zoom link will be available soon through Lucie Talks.

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Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer based in New York. In 1976, Meiselas joined Magnum Photos, where she remains a member, and since 2007, she has served as president of Magnum Foundation. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, the first Women in Motion Award from Kering and Rencontres d’Arles, and the 2008 Lucie Honoree for Achievement in Photojournalism.

Sarah Meister is executive director of Aperture, where she joined in May 2021, following more than twenty-five years at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she curated numerous exhibitions. She is author and coeditor of the three-volume series Photography at MoMA (with Quentin Bajac and others). She was also lead instructor for the online course Seeing Through Photographs and codirector of the August Sander Project. 

Aldeide Delgado is a Cuban-born, Miami-based independent Latinx art historian and curator. She is the founder and director of Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA). Delgado studies, publishes on, and curates from feminist and decolonial perspectives on crucial topics of the history of photography and abstraction within Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx contexts. 

Image: Susan Meiselas, Search along the highway to León, Nicaragua, 1979; from Susan Meiselas: On the Frontline (Aperture, 2017) © 2017 Susan Meiselas