Susana Raab

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Susana Raab
Born
Lima, Peru
NationalityPeruvian/American
Alma materOhio University, James Madison University
OccupationPhotographer

Susana Raab is an American fine art and documentary photographer [1] based in Washington, D.C. She was born in Lima, Peru. [2]

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Education

Raab studied and earned a MA in Visual Communications from Ohio University, [3] and also holds a BA in English Literature from James Madison University. [3]

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]

Collections

Raab's photographic work is held in the following permanent public collections:

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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