A View of a Room

In 2016, Susan Meiselas was invited by Multistory to visit the Black Country in the West Midlands, UK. The resulting book ‘A Room of Their Own’ is a multilayered, visual story comprised of Meiselas’ photographs, first hand testimonies and original art works from women in refuge.A few months before the launch of the book in May 2017, The Photographers’ Gallery asked Meiselas to exhibit a print for their Touchstone programme, where visitors are invited to respond to a photograph through writing and drawing. The response card asks a simple question: ‘What do you see?’This publication, ‘A View of a Room’, reproduces a selection of the responses that were submitted alongside a signed 6 x 4 inch archival print of the photograph Meiselas chose to contribute – Ritu’s Room