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Oliver Basciano | ArtReview | 15th April 2019

Winning the Deutsche Börse prize confirms Susan Meiselas as a great documentary photographer. She is well aware that her images of war raise ethical issues. Are they a “monument to the victims of war” or exploiting those victims’ suffering? This writer opts for the positive: “to look is to familiarise oneself with an ‘other’, that to familiarise is to empathise.”