Meiselas is a member of Magnum Photos since 1976. She is best known for her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America, published extensively throughout the world in 1981.
Meiselas' series, Pandora's Box, catches my eyes when I browse through her portfolio. The dramatic content in the series is in fact a documentary mirror of events occurred in a high-class sex club, Pandora's Box, located in Manhattan. In this series, the common scenes we see are role-playing games that occur in the club. At Pandora's Box, women is holding more power to control men, which is in contrary to the traditional, submissive female role.
This series is done in vibrant colors and high contrast. In this way, it gives strong emotional impact. The blurry effects caused by motion allow audience to feel the movement while it makes the image looks lively and closer to the reality instead of being staged beforehand for shooting. The magical part of these photographs to me is the composition. They look like being framed randomly but the composition looks just right in each of them.
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