Suau was born in
Peoria, Illinois.[citation needed] 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 US whilst the country was at war in
Iraq.[3]
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 was slated for release in 2019.
Publications
On a Deux Yeux de Trop: Avec les Réfugiés Rwandais, Goma, Zaïre, 1994. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 1995.
ISBN978-2742705641. On the genocide in Rwanda.
Dans les Montagnes où Vivent les Aigles: Grozny, Tchétchénie, Janvier 1995. Arles, France: Actes Sud, 1995.
ISBN978-2-7427-0565-8. On the war in Chechnya.
Beyond the Fall: The Former Soviet Bloc in Transition, 1989-99. Network Photographers, 2000.
ISBN978-0953675609.
2010: Emmy, 31st
News & Documentary Emmy Awards, New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture category, for a web documentary on his images taken during the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 [6]
References
^"Anthony Suau". World Press Photo. Archived from
the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved December 1, 2010.