Susan Meiselas will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award from the Sony World Photography Awards 2025.
Meiselas is a decorated documentarian who has covered a wide range of topics that include insurrection in Nicaragua and carnival strippers in New England.The Baltimore-born photographer’s work often focuses on the stories of women.
But it was her coverage of the Nicaraguan Revolution that led to international fame. Embedded with the Sandinista rebels, she captured iconic images that brought global attention to the country’s struggle and became defining visual records of the era. Her photograph of a Sandinista rebel throwing a Molotov cocktail, famously dubbed, became a symbol of the Sandinista revolution and her photos have been incorporated into local textbooks in Nicaragua.
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