Inside Rachel Maddow's Relationship With Susan Mikula

Rachel Maddow's journalistic success has earned her an impressive net worth of $35 million, per Celebrity Net Worth. But the MSNBC host's partner, Susan Mikula, is successful in her own right as an artist and photographer.

Born in 1958 — making her 15 years Maddow's senior — Mikula grew up in New Jersey (and New Hampshire) in a family who nurtured her love for photography from a young age. Her sister became a professional medical photographer, and Mikula told the Provincetown Banner (via her personal website) that photography is a "time-honored" tradition in the family and "a big part of who we are." The outlet wrote that Mikula took "courses in color theory at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts," but never received professional training in photography — a fact that makes her work even more impressive. According to New England Home magazine (via her personal website), she has also worked as an accountant.

Mikula is best known for her photography, and while her website reveals that she uses both old and new cameras and film, her "medium of choice is badly expired [Polaroid] film." Her artistic methods give her pictures a blurred, hauntingly beautiful quality. According to the website, "Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Miami, Los Angeles, and Northampton and Provincetown Massachusetts," as well as "in private collections in the United States and Europe."

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7r7XCpKCsr5mbwW%2BvzqZmbGlpaYF2e8inqqKclWK%2Foq%2FHnqNmpZGZsbDD0mapnqSRqbawutKhoKllp57BqXnSrqqapl2itqzBy5pm