EM\u03a3\u03a4 is pleased to present a solo show of the work of renowned documentary photographer Susan Meiselas. A member of Magnum Photos since 1976 and current president of the Magnum Foundation, Meiselas has spent nearly five decades documenting global social and political issues. From war and human rights violations to cultural identity and the sex industry, Meiselas\u2019 work raises provocative questions about documentary practice and the relationship between photographer and subject.<\/p>\n
The presentation at EM\u03a3\u03a4 brings together two works: Archives of Abuse<\/em> (1991\u20131992) and A Room of Their Own<\/em> (2015\u20132017). Consisting of photographs, oral and written testimonies, collages, posters and videos these projects focus on domestic and family violence.<\/p>\n A Room of Their Own<\/em> is a multi-layered, visual story that explores the lives of women who are survivors of domestic abuse in the Black Country, a post-industrial region in the UK. It was created through a collaborative, participatory process between Meiselas, transient women living in domestic violence shelters, local artists, writers, and Multistory, a non-profit arts organisation.<\/p>\n In her project, Archives of Abuse, <\/em>Meiselas addresses the issue of domestic violence. In the early 1990s, the photographer was invited to support a public campaign in San Francisco to raise awareness about the subject. She began by photographing crime scenes, accompanying a team of specialised police investigators, and selecting a number of documents with photographs from the archives of the San Francisco Police Department. This research led her to create Archives of Abuse<\/em>, a series of collages based on police reports and forensic photographs, which were posted in public spaces to raise people\u2019s awareness of the many different forms of violence towards women as a structural phenomenon.<\/p>\n On the 13 June, from 6.30 to 8 pm, \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 will host a conversation between Susan Meiselas and Eduardo Cadava, Professor of English at Princeton University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EM\u03a3\u03a4 is pleased to present a solo show of the work of renowned documentary photographer Susan Meiselas. A member of Magnum Photos since 1976 and current president of the Magnum Foundation, Meiselas has spent nearly five decades documenting global social and political issues. From war and human rights violations to cultural identity and the sex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89298"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90371,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89298\/revisions\/90371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}