Susan Meiselas
'A View of a Room'

In 2016, Susan Meiselas was invited by Multistory to visit the Black Country in the West Midlands, UK. The resulting book ‘A Room of Their Own’ is a multilayered, visual story comprised of Meiselas’ photographs, first hand testimonies and original art works from women in refuge.

A few months before the launch of the book in May 2017, The Photographers’ Gallery asked Meiselas to exhibit a print for their Touchstone programme, where visitors are invited to respond to a photograph through writing and drawing. The response card asks a simple question: ‘What do you see?’

This publication, ‘A View of a Room’, reproduces a selection of the responses that were submitted alongside a signed 6 x 4 inch archival print of the photograph Meiselas chose to contribute – Ritu’s Room (shown above).

A percentage of proceeds from the sale of this publication will be donated to Women’s Aid.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photography Catalogue Award.

Book:
80pp 120 x 160 mm
80 handwritten texts / illustrations
Offset lithoprint on uncoated recycled paper
French fold dust jacket with flaps

Photographic print:
Archival print signed by the artist
148 x 104mm
Housed in plastic sleeve

Card:
Original unused Touchstone response card from The Photographers’ Gallery

Edition of 500
ISBN 978–0–9935853–5–7