Anthony Suau

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Anthony Suau (* 1956 ) is an award-winning American photographer who has dedicated himself to documenting crises and conflicts around the world.

Photographic work

From 1979 to 1985, Suau worked as a photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Denver Post. In 1984, when he was working for the Denver Post, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the photography category for a photo series about the consequences of the famine in Ethiopia. In 1985, Suau moved to New York City and worked with the Black Star Photo Agency under the guidance of Howard Chapnick . In the same year he received the ICP Infinity Award for "Outstanding Photographer under 30". 1987, his image of a was Korean mother who desperately clings to the shield of a police officer after her son was arrested during a demonstration by World Press Photo for World Press Photo of the Year chosen and Suau itself to "Magazine Photographer of the Year" in the NPPA Pictures of the Year competition.

Since 1991 he has worked as a contract photographer for TIME Magazine . In 1994 Suau published an illustrated book on the genocide in Rwanda , and in 1995 he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his work on the war in Chechnya , which he also published as an illustrated book .

From 1989 to 1999, in the long-term project Beyond the Fall , Suau documented the upheavals in the states of the former Warsaw Pact , especially in Russia, for over a decade . The photos were shown in exhibitions around the world, including in the European Parliament in Brussels . Suau's book Fear This takes a critical look at the American invasion of Iraq. In the course of his work in Iraq, Suau was captured by Iraq.

In 2007 Suau was named ICP Photojournalist of the Year. Suau's picture of a sheriff ransacking a house in Cleveland , Ohio that had been foreclosed during the financial crisis was named Press Photo of the Year 2008.

Awards

  • Pulitzer Prize: 1984
  • Infinity Award for Outstanding Photographer under 30: 1985
  • Press Photo of the Year: 1987, 2008
  • Magazine Photographer of the Year: 1988, 1994
  • Robert Capa Gold Medal: 1995
  • Canon Photo Essayist Award: 1996
  • ICP Photojournalist of the Year: 2007

Books

  • On a deux yeux de trop: Avec les refugies rwandais, Goma, Zaire, 1994 (Voir et dire) . Actes Sud, 1995, ISBN 2742705643 .
  • Dans les montagnes ou vivent les aigles: Grozny, Tchetchenie, January 1995 (Voir et dire) . Actes Sud, 1995, ISBN 2742705651 .
  • Brazil Incarnate . Network Photographers, 1999, ISBN 0953675610 .
  • Beyond the Fall: The Former Soviet Bloc in Transition 1989–1999 . Liaison Agency, 2000, ISBN 0967796806 .
  • Fear this . Aperture, 2005, ISBN 1931788537 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Pulitzer Prices. 1984 Winners & Finalists. Retrieved August 5, 2014 .
  2. ^ World Press Photo. The Archive. 1987. Retrieved August 5, 2014 .
  3. ^ Anthony Suau: Beyond the Fall . Retrieved August 5, 2014 .
  4. ↑ AFTER THE WAR: JOURNALISTS; 10 Additional Journalists Unaccounted for in Iraq . In: The New York Times, March 7, 1991. Retrieved August 5, 2014 .
  5. ↑ From The Publisher: Mar. 25, 1991 . TIME Magazine
  6. ↑ World Press Photo 2008 . Guardian, Feb. 13, 2009.

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personal data
SURNAME Suau, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956