VOYAGES: Film and Interview on The Darkroom Rumour by Susan Meiselas

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VOYAGES: Film and Interview on The Darkroom Rumour

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Mar 11, 2025

This documentary immortalises the meeting between two giants of their discipline. The first, British filmmaker Marc Karlin (1943-1999), remains largely unknown to this day. The second, American photographer Susan Meiselas (born 1948), is an icon of photojournalism and of the Magnum agency, of which she is president. In the late 1970s, she travelled to Nicaragua to document the two uprisings that led to the fall of the dictator Anastasio Somoza's regime. Some of the photographs she produced there quickly became a symbol of the Sandinista revolution. In 1981, she brought them together in a book that is now considered to be a model of the photographic essay genre. In this surprisingly film, the photographs from her publication are accompanied by a long letter written to the director, in which Susan Meiselas shares her thoughts on her relationship with this major historical event and on the ethics of photojournalism, as well as the role of the photographer, his contradictions and his responsibilities.

Watch Voyages below and read Susan's interview here.

Watch SUSAN MEISELAS: VOYAGES (1985)
A film by Marc Karlin | UK | 1985 | 42 minutes - This documentary immortalises the meeting between two giants of their discipline. The first, British filmmaker Marc Karlin (1943-1999), remains largely unknown to this day. The second, American...
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