Susana Raab is an American fine art and documentary photographer based in

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She was born in

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Education

Raab studied and earned a MA in Visual Communications from

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,"ABOUT". Washington DC based photographer Susana Raab. Retrieved 2019-01-27. and also holds a BA in

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James Madison University James Madison University (JMU, Madison, or James Madison) is a public research university in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Founded in 1908 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Harrisonburg, the institution was renamed Madison Coll ...

Photography

Raab's photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide including the

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, the

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, Madrid, Spain, the

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Photo Festival, Noorderlicht Fotofestival in the

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in Washington, D.C. For the last decade, Raab has been pursuing the long-term documentation of the East of the

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communities in Washington, D.C. She also works as the photographer of the Smithsonian

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. In 2018, ''Politico Magazine'' described her photo essay about recent changes in demographics in Washington, DC as "a striking photo essay."

Awards and recognition

She has been twice nominated for a

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

, and has been the recipient of the White House News Photographers' Project Grant, four DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowships. * 1998 Nominee, Pulitzer Prize, ''The New York Times'' * 2004 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, ''The Palm Beach Post'' * 2005 White House News Photographers' Association Project Grant * 2008 Critical Mass Top 50, Portland, OR * 2008 American Photography 24 * 2009 Finalist, GrandPrize, Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland * 2009 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities * 2010 American Photography 26 * 2010 Photo District News Annual * 2012 Forward Thinking Museum, New York, NY * 2013 Nominee

Prix Pictet The Prix Pictet (Pictet prize) is an international award in photography. It was founded in 2008 by the Geneva-based Pictet Group with the mandate to use the power of photography to communicate messages about sustainability to a global audience. Its ...

* 2014 American Photography 30 * 2015 American Photography 31 * 2015 Critical Mass Top 50 * 2016 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities * 2017 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities * 2018 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities * 2018 American Photography 34 * 2018 Peter S. Reed Foundation Award *

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Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections * Puffin Grant

Collections

Raab's photographic work is held in the following permanent public collections: *Washington, DC Public Art Bank *Smithsonian Institution's

National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history. Among the items on display is t ...

Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is ...

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library () is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the largest buildings in the world dedicated to rare books and manuscripts. Es ...

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* 2010 Super-America, Kunstlicht Gallery, Shanghai, China * 2010 American Vernacular, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC * 2012 Consumed, SALT Gallery, Portland, ME * 2015 The Invisible Wall, Spagnuolo Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC * 2016 East of the River, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC

Group exhibitions

* 2002 Eyes of History,

, Washington, DC * 2009 Consumed, Shots, Look3 Festival of Photography, Charlottesville, VA * 2010 Etc., Pingyao Photo festival, Pingyao, China * 2011 En Foco Fellowship Show, Blue Sky Gallery,

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* 2011 Corridor, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC * 2011 A Sense of Place, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA * 2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Rayko Photo, San Francisco, CA * 2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Newspace, Portland, OR * 2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, FotoDC, Washington, DC * 2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI * 2012 Kaunas Photo Festival, Latvia * 2013 Converging Cultures: Works by Latino Artists, UMW Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA * 2013 Cotidiano USA, Embassy of Spain, Washington, DC * 2013 Selections from Time Machine #2: Spectacle: Consumed, Belfast Photo Festival, BBC Screen * 2013 FotoNovela, III Forum on Latin American Photography, São Paulo, Brazil * 2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, IL * 2014 Select 2014, WPA Project for the Arts, Washington, DC * 2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NY, NY * 2014 Photo/Diary, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC * 2015 Select, Washington Project for the Arts, Artisphere, Arlington, VA * 2016 The Invisible Wall, The Fence, Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Atlanta, GA; Houston, TX; Albuquerque, NM * 2016 Hickock Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts, DC * 2016 Unbound, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA * 2016 Women Photojournalists of Washington 10-Year Anniversary Show,

National Geographic Museum The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational organizations in the world. Founded in 1888, its interests include geography, archaeology, and ...

, Washington, DC * 2017 Performing the Border, American University Art Museum at the Katzen, Washington, DC * 2017 Hickock Cole Art Night,

Washington Project for the Arts Washington Project for the Arts, founded in 1975, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support and aid of artists in the Washington, D.C. area. History Alice Denney, a contemporary art collector active on the Washington scene, founded th ...

, Washington, DC * 2018 Southbound: Photographs about the New South, Halsey Institute of Art, Charleston, SC. * 2018 Not an Ostrich and Other Powerful Images from America's Library, Annenberg Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA * 2019 Faces of the Planet, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum *2020

Hunter Museum of American Art The Hunter Museum of American Art is an art museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The museum's collections include works representing the Hudson River School, 19th century genre painting, American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, early modernism, re ...

, Chattanooga, TN

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Raab, Susana Living people Photographers from Washington, D.C. American photographers Artists from Lima American people of Peruvian descent Ohio University alumni James Madison University alumni Artists from Washington, D.C. Hispanic and Latino American women in the arts Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women photographers 21st-century American photographers