American fine art and documentary photographer
Susana Raab is an American fine art and documentary photographer based in Washington, D.C. She was born in Lima, Peru.
Education.
Raab studied and earned a MA in Visual Communications from Ohio University, and also holds a BA in English Literature from James Madison University.
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 in the Netherlands, and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C.
For the last decade, Raab has been pursuing the long-term documentation of the East of the Anacostia River communities in Washington, D.C. She also works as the photographer of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum. 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, and has been the recipient of the White House News Photographers' Project Grant, four DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowships.
Collections.
Raab's photographic work is held in the following permanent public collections: