Anthony Suau

Anthony Suau is an American photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, based in New York City.

Life and work

Suau was born in Peoria, Illinois. He worked for the Chicago Sun-Times, and The Denver Post,[1] was a contract photographer for Time from 1991 to 2009, and has produced a number of stories for National Geographic Magazine. He has dedicated his life and career to documenting the effects of international events on the lives of people around the world.

Suau has published five books, including Beyond the Fall, a ten-year photography project portraying the transition of the Eastern bloc starting from the fall of the Berlin Wall,[2] and Fear This, with American journalist and author Chris Hedges and blurbs by Howard Zinn and P. J. O'Rourke, about the war of images and slogans being played out in the USA whilst the country was at war in Iraq.[3]

His work has appeared in National Geographic, Paris Match, Stern, The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, Life, and elsewhere.[4]

In 2009 he co-founded the nonprofit collective "Facing Change: Documenting America", with a group of socially-minded photographers and writers to document the issues facing the United States during a time of economic uncertainty. As the project president he was able to negotiate and sign agreements with the Library of Congress, Leica Camera, National Geographic, GEO, Le Monde, Open Society Foundations, and PhotoShelter. Six months after a negligent board of directors took control of the company's management, in June 2013, he resigned from the organization to work on a number of developing projects.

Suau directed his first feature documentary, Organic Rising, which examines the rise of the organic farming movement across the American agricultural landscape. The film's executive producer is Deepak Chopra, the production company is Goldcrest Films. Elizabeth Kucinich, the wife of former U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, also is a producer on the film. The film is slated for release in 2019.

Publications
  • On a Deux Yeux de Trop: Avec les Réfugiés Rwandais, Goma, Zaïre, 1994. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 1995. ISBN 978-2742705641. On the genocide in Rwanda.
  • Dans les Montagnes où Vivent les Aigles: Grozny, Tchétchénie, Janvier 1995. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 1995. ISBN 978-2-7427-0565-8. On the war in Chechnya.
  • Beyond the Fall: The Former Soviet Bloc in Transition, 1989-99. Network Photographers, 2000. ISBN 978-0953675609.
  • Fear This: A Nation at War. New York: Aperture, 2004. ISBN 978-1931788533.

Awards
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References
  1. "Anthony Suau". World Press Photo. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
  2. Anthony Suau – 2008 World Press Winner. "Anthony Suau – 2008 World Press Winner". A Photo Editor. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
  3. "Fear This: a nation at war: Anthony Suau, 6 October 2004". openDemocracy. Accessed 12 January 2017.
  4. "Photographer Anthony Suau Biography - National Geographic". National Geographic. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
  5. "Anthony Suau Wins World Press Photo". Nppa.org. 2009-02-13. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
  6. "The national academy of television arts and sciences announces winners at the 31st Annual News & Documentary Emmy awards" National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Accessed 12 January 2017
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