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Welcome to Susan Markisz Photography

Susan is an accomplished, passionate and mission-driven photojournalist and writer in New York. In addition to being a professional photographer, she is a photo editor and communication specialist, with 25 years of global experience in advocacy, humanitarian photography and writing in the United Nations system, with NGOs, international media and the private sector.

She is a compassionate, sensitive, dynamic and bilingual (Spanish & English) storyteller, writer and photographer, dedicated to ethically representing the rights of children and women through photography and writing, and is equally confident and experienced in photographing high level officials, world leaders and celebrities in public and private meetings with a dedication to “finding and telling the back story” when the lead isn’t obvious or compelling.

She is a detail-oriented photo editor working with digital asset management systems; researching, writing and incorporating comprehensive caption information and metadata for cataloguing imagery.

Susan has worked extensively on photography missions in Latin America and the Caribbean, documenting birth registration, immunization, early childhood education, indigenous rights and child protection issues. Her goal in photojournalism is to bring sensitivity and compassion to her imagery.

Welcome to Susan Markisz Photography. For more information, please see “About Susan,” or contact her through the “Contact” page.

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All photographs on this website are copyrighted and protected by U.S. copyright law, and may not be reproduced or archived in any medium without written permission from the copyright holder. For information on licensing and usage, kindly contact Susan Markisz through the “Contact” page.

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A woman tenderly kisses her infant daughter at a health center in Guatemala. A mother and her son sit inside their home in the indigenous Shipibo-Conibo community of Nuevo Saposoa in the eastern province of Coronel Portillo in Ucayali Region in the Peruvian Amazon. ©UNICEF/2010/Susan Markisz Young indigenous Mayan girls stand in front of their home in Guatemala. An indigenous Anu woman sits inside her home with her one-year-old daughter Georgita, in Laguna de Sinamaica, a lagoon in Paez Municipality in the north-western state of Zulia, Venezuela, in 2006. Idigenous Añu siblings stand outside their home, in Laguna de Sinamaica, a lagoon in Paez Municipality in the north-western state of Zulia, Venezuela. ©UNICEF/2006/Susan Markisz Samburu activists Jane Meriwas and Jacinta Silakan at the United Nations Samburu activists Jane Meriwas and Jacinta Silakan A young mother holds her 8-month-old wide-eyed daughter at a Guatemalan health clinic. Boys play football on the street in the community of Trenchtown in the parish of Kingston and St. Andrew, Jamaica. Minahil Sarfraz stands with her arms gently raised, in front of a painted mural echoing the colors of her blouse, at United Nations Headquarters. A girl with drops of water on her skin showers outside her makeshift home in a tent camp for people displaced by the Haiti earthquake. Young miners wearing helmets push rail carts filled with ore at a Bolivian mine. Erik Marques, Brazil climate activist A Bolivian woman wearing a traditional bowler hat and traditional skirt, walk with her son and daughter, in contemporary clothing, along Calle Sacarnaga in La Paz, Bolivia. Angelique Kidjo performs at a concert. Dorcus Parit, a Masai activist wearing colorful Masai dress. A young patient is entertained by the Clown Care Unit of the Big Apple Circus in his hospital room. Nelson Mandela is surrounded by children at a United Nations children's forum Pope Francis gestures while addressing the United Nations. Indigenous adolescent boy wearing black and red face paint and traditional headdress and beads. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at his desk in UN Headquarters. Shakira at UN Headquarters Robert Simons, CUNY Theater Department Chairman laughs on the set of an upcoming production of Moby Dick at a Bronx marina. A woman wearing a red and black liturgical vestment, stands outside the majestic Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. Ray Charles plays the piano at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Yoko Ono, wearing a black and white fedora and black sunglasses, raises her hand in a peace sign as Hugh Jackman stands beside her. Tarcila Rivera Zea, a Quechuan activist from Ayacucho, Peru, participates in the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) meeting in New York City on March 15, 2018. (Right) Performer Chloe Bailey from 'Chloe x Halle' embraces a girl as she is photographed at a rehearsal ahead of Monday's event to mark World Children’s Day at the United Nations Headquarters, on 19 November 2017. Brazilian Singer Daniela Mercury performs at UN Headquarters. Indigenous Shipibo Conibo women from Nuevo Saposoa in rural Peru, do a welcome dance for visitors to their community.