Susan Kandel is an American photographer, mostly known for her work started in 1979 when she photographed for a period of over 10 years several families in the Boston area (Everett, Revere Beach, etc.), in Massachusetts.
In 2021, British publisher Stanley / Barker released the photobook "At Home" covering this long-term project and important body of work, sharing the intimacy of American families throughout the eighties.
© Portrait taken from an article in The Guardian around the release of the book.
Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " In October 1979, Pope John Paul II came to the Boston Common, the historic park in Boston. Susan Kandel was there taking pictures of families who'd come to see him, carrying on with work she had started months earlier photographing families at Revere Beach, a few miles north of Boston. Among the people she photographed...