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Susana Raab
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Susana Raab
Susana Raab is a photographer based out of Washington, D.C. She was born in Lima, Peru and raised throughout the United States. She began her career as a photojournalist in Washington covering politics.
Susana returned to graduate school at Ohio University to focus on creating long-term personal work. There she began Consumed, an exploration of fast food in America, which defined the quirky and serious subject matter she investigates in many stories of America at leisure. The series was nominated for the Prix Pictet (2013), exhibited widely, and collected by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the Library of Congress.
More recently her work has focused on the east of the Anacostia River neighborhoods in Washington, DC and in Peru, where she recently finished work for an upcoming body of work, Precious Stranger.
Yielding to the archival impulse, Susana incorporates neighborhood and family archive with contemporary photography. Her work is a love affair with the quotidian, writ large in color.
Among other honors, she has been the recipient of the White House News Photographers’ Project Grant, several DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowships, honors in American Photography, Photo District News, Center. Her work is held in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, The Capital One Collection, The Library of Congress, Division of Prints & Photographs, The Art Museum of the Americas, and the D.C. Public Art Bank.
Susana returned to graduate school at Ohio University to focus on creating long-term personal work. There she began Consumed, an exploration of fast food in America, which defined the quirky and serious subject matter she investigates in many stories of America at leisure. The series was nominated for the Prix Pictet (2013), exhibited widely, and collected by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and the Library of Congress.
More recently her work has focused on the east of the Anacostia River neighborhoods in Washington, DC and in Peru, where she recently finished work for an upcoming body of work, Precious Stranger.
Yielding to the archival impulse, Susana incorporates neighborhood and family archive with contemporary photography. Her work is a love affair with the quotidian, writ large in color.
Among other honors, she has been the recipient of the White House News Photographers’ Project Grant, several DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowships, honors in American Photography, Photo District News, Center. Her work is held in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, The Capital One Collection, The Library of Congress, Division of Prints & Photographs, The Art Museum of the Americas, and the D.C. Public Art Bank.