Susan May Tell (susanmaytell)

Susan May Tell is an award-winning fine art photographer whose solo exhibitions have been showcased at such venues as the Museum of Art / Fort Lauderdale, Griffin Museum of Photography, University of California / San Francisco, and the Avenue B Gallery.

Her photographs are in the Smithsonian Museum's Samuel Wagstaff Collection and have been featured in many group exhibitions including the Monmouth and Phoenix Art Museums. In 2009 Malcolm Daniel, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Chief Curator of Photographs, awarded Tell's photo, Witness Katrina, First Place in an exhibition he juried for the Barrett Art Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. In 2010 Nat Trotman, Associate Curator of Art, Guggenheim Museum of Art, included her work in 2 exhibitions he juried at that same venue.

Tell has also had a successful career as a photojournalist, spending 4 years based in Cairo and 4 years in Paris, working for clients including the New York Times, LIFE, TIME, and Newsweek Magazines. This was followed by 10 years as a staff photographer for the New York Post.