Susan
B. Markisz is a multimedia journalist. Her clients include The New York
Times, UNICEF, the United Nations and the World Health Organization, among
others. She has been frequently honored by the National Press Photographers
Association and the New York Press Photographers Association for her work
in journalism. In 1999 she was named Photographer of the by the New York
Press Association. In addition to editorial work, her personal writing and
photographs of women confronting breast cancer have been published to wide
acclaim. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
A portion of her photographic essay "Triumph of Spirit" is on
loan to the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations and is in the
permanent collection of the Women's Cancer Program at the Mayo Clinic. Markisz is the mother of a son and daughter, 20 and 16. Diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 36, when her children were just 4 and 7 years old, she is a 13 year breast cancer survivor - and counting. The gift of survivorship, as in photojournalism, is in the capacity for human interaction. Her goal in photojournalism is to bring a sensitive eye and heart to observe and record the human condition