Susana Raab Last updated August 08, 2025 American fine art and documentary photographer
Susana Raab
Born Nationality American Education Known for Fine art photography, documentary photography Notable work East of the River (long-term project)Style Documentary, fine art Awards Pulitzer Prize nominee (1998, 2004) White House News Photographers' Project Grant (2005) DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship (multiple years) Peter S. Reed Foundation Award (2018) Puffin Foundation Grant Website susanaraab.com
Susana Raab is an American fine art and documentary photographer [ 1] based in Washington, D.C. She was born in Lima, Peru . [ 2]
Photography Raab's photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide including the Corcoran Gallery of Art , the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo , Madrid, Spain, the Pingyao Photo Festival, Noorderlicht Fotofestival [ 4] in the Netherlands , and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C. [ 5]
For the last decade, [ 6] [ 7] Raab has been pursuing the long-term documentation of the East of the Anacostia River communities [ 7] in Washington, D.C. She also works as the photographer of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum . [ 8] In 2018, Politico Magazine described her photo essay [ 9] about recent changes in demographics in Washington, DC as "a striking photo essay." [ 10]
Awards and recognition She has been twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize , [ 11] and has been the recipient of the White House News Photographers' Project Grant, [ 11] four DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowships. [ 12]
1998 Nominee, Pulitzer Prize, The New York Times [ 11] 2004 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, The Palm Beach Post [ 11] 2005 White House News Photographers' Association Project Grant [ 11] 2008 Critical Mass Top 50, Portland, Oregon [ 13] 2008 American Photography 24 [ 14] 2009 Finalist, GrandPrize, Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland [ 15] 2009 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities [ 11] 2010 American Photography 26 [ 14] 2010 Photo District News Annual [ 16] 2012 Forward Thinking Museum, New York, New York [ 17] 2013 Nominee Prix Pictet [ 18] 2014 American Photography 30 [ 19] 2015 American Photography 31 2015 Critical Mass Top 50 [ 20] 2016 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities [ 21] 2017 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities [ 22] 2018 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities [ 23] 2018 American Photography 34 [ 24] 2018 Peter S. Reed Foundation Award [ 25] UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections [ 26] Puffin Grant [ 27] [ 28] Collections Raab's photographic work is held in the following permanent public collections:
Exhibitions Solo exhibitions 2010 Super-America, Kunstlicht Gallery, Shanghai, China [ 34] 2010 American Vernacular, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC [ 35] 2012 Consumed, SALT Gallery, Portland, ME [ 36] 2015 The Invisible Wall, Spagnuolo Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC [ 2] 2016 East of the River, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC [ 37] Group exhibitions 2002 Eyes of History, Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington, DC [ 38] 2009 Consumed, Shots, Look3 Festival of Photography, Charlottesville, VA [ 39] 2010 Etc., Pingyao Photo festival, Pingyao, China[ citation needed ] 2011 En Foco Fellowship Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2011 Corridor, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC [ 5] 2011 A Sense of Place, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA[ citation needed ] 2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Rayko Photo, San Francisco, CA [ 40] 2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Newspace, Portland, OR [ 40] 2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, FotoDC, Washington, DC [ 41] 2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI [ 41] 2012 Kaunas Photo Festival, Latvia [ 42] 2013 Converging Cultures: Works by Latino Artists, UMW Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA [ 43] 2013 Cotidiano USA, Embassy of Spain, Washington, DC [ 44] 2013 Selections from Time Machine #2: Spectacle: Consumed, Belfast Photo Festival, BBC Screen [ 45] [ 46] 2013 FotoNovela, III Forum on Latin American Photography, São Paulo, Brazil [ 47] 2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, IL [ 48] 2014 Select 2014, WPA Project for the Arts, Washington, DC [ 49] 2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NY, NY [ 48] 2014 Photo/Diary, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC [ 50] 2015 Select, Washington Project for the Arts, Artisphere, Arlington, VA [ 51] 2016 The Invisible Wall, The Fence, Boston, MA; [ 52] Brooklyn, NY; [ 52] Atlanta, GA; [ 52] Houston, TX; [ 52] Albuquerque, NM [ 52] 2016 Hickock Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts, DC [ 53] 2016 Unbound, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA [ 54] 2016 Women Photojournalists of Washington 10-Year Anniversary Show, National Geographic Museum , Washington, DC [ 55] 2017 Performing the Border, American University Art Museum at the Katzen, Washington, DC [ 56] 2017 Hickock Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts , Washington, DC [ 57] 2018 Southbound: Photographs about the New South, Halsey Institute of Art, Charleston, SC. [ 18] [ 58] 2018 Not an Ostrich and Other Powerful Images from America's Library, Annenberg Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA [ 59] 2019 Faces of the Planet, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum [ 60] 2020 Hunter Museum of American Art , Chattanooga, TN [ 61] References ↑ "Susana Raab" . Interviews : FuseVisual . 2014-06-30. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . 1 2 "The Invisible Wall: Photographs by Susana Raab" . Georgetown University Spagnuolo Art Gallery . 2015. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . 1 2 "ABOUT". Washington DC based photographer Susana Raab. Retrieved 2019-01-27. [ verification needed ] ↑ "Photographers" . Noorderlicht Photofestival . 2007. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . 1 2 "Corridor | AMA | Art Museum of the Americas" . Art Museum of the Americas . 2013. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ Velinsky, David J.; Riedel, Gerhardt F.; Ashley, Jeffrey T. F.; Cornwell, Jeffrey C. (2011-03-15). "Historical contamination of the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C.". Environmental Monitoring and Assessment . 183 (1– 4): 307– 328. Bibcode :2011EMnAs.183..307V . doi :10.1007/s10661-011-1923-z . ISSN 0167-6369 . PMID 21404015 . S2CID 42159342 . 1 2 "Susana Raab | Anacostia Community Documentation Initiative" . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ Smith, Ryan P. "How This Washington, D.C. Museum Redefined What Museums Could Be" . Smithsonian . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Photos: Change Comes to Eastern D.C." POLITICO . 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2019-03-17 . ↑ Heuser, Stephen. "Your City Is Watching You" . POLITICO Magazine . Retrieved 2019-03-17 . 1 2 3 4 5 6 Estrin, James (2009-07-15). "Showcase: More Than a Slice" . New York Times - Lens Blog . Retrieved 2019-01-31 . ↑ " . search.usa.gov . Retrieved 2019-01-31 . ↑ "Critical Mass 2008 Winners" . www.photolucida.org . 29 January 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . 1 2 "AI-AP | American Illustration - American Photography" . www.ai-ap.com . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "::: FotoFestiwal 2008" . fotofestiwal.com . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "PDN Photo Annual 2010" . www.pdngallery.com . Retrieved 2019-01-31 . ↑ "FTM | Susana Raab | EAST OF THE RIVER" . www.forwardthinkingmuseum.com . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . 1 2 "SOUTHBOUND: PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH" . Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "American Photography 30 Award Winners" . www.ai-ap.com . 2014. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Critical Mass 2015 Award Winners: Artist Detail | Photolucida" . PhotoLucida . 2015. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "FY17 Grant Awardees - Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP) | dcarts" . dcarts.dc.gov . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "FY18 Grantees - Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP) | dcarts" . dcarts.dc.gov . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "FY19 Grantees - Arts and Humanities Fellowship Program (AHFP) | dcarts" . dcarts.dc.gov . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "AI-AP Slideshow" . www.ai-ap.com . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Peter S. Reed 2018" . www.petersreedfoundation.com . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Special Collections And Archives | Claire T. Carney Library - UMass Dartmouth" . www.lib.umassd.edu . Retrieved 2019-01-31 . ↑ "photo-eye | Gallery" . www.photoeye.com . Retrieved 2019-01-31 . ↑ "IFES 2015 Photo Contest Judges | IFES" . International Foundation for Electoral Systems . Retrieved 2019-08-06 . ↑ "Results | Search Objects | eMuseum | dcarts - Susana Raab" . DC Art Bank Collection . Retrieved 2019-01-30 . ↑ "Collections Search Results - Susana Raab" . National Museum of American History . Retrieved 2019-01-30 . ↑ "Search results for Susana Raab" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 2019-01-30 . ↑ "Orbis Titles - Susana Raab Search" . orbis.library.yale.edu . Retrieved 2019-01-30 . ↑ "Corridor | AMA | Art Museum of the Americas" . museum.oas.org . Retrieved 2019-01-30 . ↑ "SUPER AMERICA" . ARTLINKART . Retrieved 14 October 2020 . ↑ Jacobson, Lou (April 2, 2010). "Susana Raab's "American Vernacular" at Irvine Contemporary" . The Washington City Paper . ↑ "ARTSGUIDE Events Calendar" (PDF) . Portland Monthly . September 2012. p. 22. Retrieved 18 September 2020 . ↑ "10th Anniversary East of the River Exhibition | Honfleur Gallery" . www.honfleurgallery.com . Archived from the original on January 28, 2019. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "The Eyes of History: The US' Most Distinguished Photojournalists" . absolutearts . Retrieved 14 October 2020 . ↑ "Past SHOTS & WORKS Artists" . LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph . Retrieved 14 October 2020 . 1 2 Northwest, Photographic Center. "Susana Raab, Hermanos del Sierra, Huanchaco, Peru, 2011" . Photographic Center Northwest . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . 1 2 Mahoney, John (3 October 2012). " . Popular Photography . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "KAUNAS PHOTO 2012 – KAUNAS PHOTO" . festival.kaunasphoto.com . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "UMW Galleries to Feature Latino and UMW Faculty Artists" . News . 2013-09-02. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "LATINO/US Cotidiano" . SPAIN Arts & Culture . Retrieved 2019-04-30 . ↑ "Programme: 2013 Belfast Photo Festival" . Issuu . 2013-05-05. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-12-13 . ↑ "Issue Two: Spectacle" . Timemachine Magazine . Archived from the original on 2013-06-08. ↑ "Fotonovela: realidade, simulacro, fantasia" . Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia . 2023-06-15. Retrieved 2023-06-15 . 1 2 "LATINO/US Cotidiano (Everyday Life) opens Oct. 3 at NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center" . New York University . Sep 22, 2014. ↑ "SELECT 2014: WPA Art Auction Exhibition" . www.wpadc.org . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "PHOTO/DIARY @ Carroll Square Gallery" . FotoDC . Retrieved 2019-04-30 . ↑ "SELECT 2015: Curator Talk with Asantewa Boakyewa, Kristi-Anne Caisse, Sarah Hanley, and Phyllis Rosenzweig" . East City Art . 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . 1 2 3 4 5 "Susana Raab: The Invisible Wall" . THE FENCE 2012–2016 . 2016-06-03. Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Art Night 2018" . Hickok Cole . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "UnBound5! Artist Line Up ‹ Candela Books + Gallery - Copyright 2018" . candelabooks.com . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Women Photojournalists of Washington 10-Year Anniversary Show sponsored by Digital Silver Imaging" . FotoDC . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Performing the Border | AU Museum, Washington, DC" . American University . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Art Night 2018" . Hickok Cole . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Artists – Southbound Project" . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Not An Ostrich: And Other Images From America's Library" . Annenberg Space for Photography . Retrieved 2019-01-27 . ↑ "Torch | A Unique Lens: Photographs from the Smithsonian Family" . torch.si.edu . Retrieved 2019-01-28 . ↑ "SOUTHBOUND: PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH" . Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art . Retrieved 2022-03-03 . This page is based on this
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