Susan Meiselas on “Eyes Open”

Join ICP and Aperture online for a conversation between photographer Susan Meiselas and ICP’s Managing Director of Programs David Campany on Meiselas’s new Aperture publication, Eyes Open: 23 Photography Projects for Curious Kids. How do we lead others to see and be inspired by the photographic process? Campany and Meiselas will discuss the book which promotes new ways of seeing and exploring photography for kids, as well as the practice of teaching photography. They will also re-visit Meiselas’s 1974 book, Learn to See: A Sourcebook of Photography Projects by Students and Teachers, to examine the ways in which teaching photography has evolved and continued to inspire new generations of imagemakers over the last nearly fifty years.

For more information, and to register, please visit ICP’s website. 

Susan Meiselas (born in Baltimore, 1948) joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and is president of Magnum Foundation. She has received numerous awards, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal; Leica Award for Excellence; Hasselblad Foundation Photography Prize; Cornel Capa Infinity Award; and Harvard Arts Medal, and was a MacArthur Fellow. She received her MA in visual education from Harvard University and has published numerous books, including Nicaragua (1981; reissued by Aperture 2008, 2016) and On the Front Line (Aperture, 2017).

David Campany is ICP’s Managing Director of Programs, and a writer, editor, and curator.

Image: Carolyn Drake, Ternopil, Petrykhiv; from the series Internat, 2016, from Eyes Open (Aperture, 2020) © Carolyn Drake/Magnum Photos