Susan Meiselas is a pioneer in the collaborative practice of photography. Her work questions the political and memorial power of images by creating space for dialogue and interactions. She is known for her investigation of American traveling striptease shows in the early 1970s, her work on the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1978-1979, and for her extensive photographic documentary project on the Kurdish people, which begun in the 1990s. She joined the Magnum agency in 1976 and has been president of the foundation since its creation in 2007.