Background
Suau, Anthony was born on October 16, 1956 in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Son of Elio and Elaine (Martin) Suau.
(Fear This: A Nation at War is Anthony Suau's first-hand d...)
Fear This: A Nation at War is Anthony Suau's first-hand documentation of the United States throughout the buildup to the war in Iraq and major Allied military operations, ending with the capture of Saddam Hussein and the erupting Iraqi insurgency. Suau has dedicated his career to documenting the effects of international events on the individual lives of people around the world. In Fear This, he la...
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freelance/self-employed photojournalist
Suau, Anthony was born on October 16, 1956 in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Son of Elio and Elaine (Martin) Suau.
Photojournalism degree, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1979.
He worked for the Chicago Sun Times, and Denver Post. He was a contract photographer for Time from 1991 to 2009, and has published four books, including "Beyond the Fall", a 10-year photography project portraying the transition of the Eastern bloc starting from the fall of the Berlin wall, and Fear This, about the war of images and slogans being played out at home while America is at war in Iraq. His work has appeared in National Geographic magazine, Paris Match, Stern, The New York Times Magazine, the Sunday Times Magazine (London ),, and many publications throughout the world.
In 2009 he co-founded the non-profit collective "Facing Change: Documenting America", with a group of social 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 Incorporated., the National Geographic Magazine, German GEO, Le Monde (France), the Open Society Foundation and PhotoShelter. He resigned from the organization in June 2013, 6 months after a negligent Board of Directors took control of the company"s management.
Currently based in New York he is directing his first feature documentary, Organic Rising, a look at the rise of the organic industry across the United States. The film is funded by Leica Camera Incorporated., a successful crowd-source funding campaign, Doctor Bronner, Amy"s Kitchen, Earl"s Organic Produce and Heath and LeJeune and it is being produced by Deepak Chopra, Nick Quested of Goldcrest Films, Elizabeth Kucinich, the wife of former eight-term congressman and two-time Democratic presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich and Christina Vircillo of Three One New York City. The documentary is scheduled to be released in 2016.
(Fear This: A Nation at War is Anthony Suau's first-hand d...)