In the late 1970s , Meiselas documented the insurrection in Nicaragua and human rights issues in Latin America . Her most notable photograph from this project was '' Molotov Man , '' which depicts a man ( later identified as Pablo ' Bareta ' Aruaz ) poised to throw a molotov cocktail made from a Pepsi bottle in his right hand , while holding a rifle in his left hand . The became a symbol of the Sandinista revolution and was widely reproduced and remixed in Nicaragua . Latterly , outside this context , it was reproduced via an Internet meme based on Joy Garnett 's 2003 painting '' Molotov , '' thus becoming a prominent case-study of the appropriation , transformation , and quotation in art . Her photographs of the Nicaraguan Revolution have been incorporated into local textbooks in Nicaragua . Her 1991 documentary film , '' Pictures from a Revolution , '' depicts her return to sites she photographed and conversations with subjects of the photographs as they reflect on the images ten years after the war . In 2004 , Meiselas returned to Nicaragua to install nineteen mural-size images of her photographs at the locations where they were taken . The project was called " Reframing History . " In 1981 , she visited a village destroyed by government forces in El Salvador and took pictures of the El Mozote massacre , working with journalists Raymond Bonner and Alma Guillermoprieto
El Mozote massacre
El Mozote massacre
Susan Meiselas