Born in the United States in 1956, Anthony Suau has been
based in Europe since 1987. He has dedicated
his career to documenting the effects of international events on the lives of
people around the world.
In 1984, Suau was
awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his images of the famine in Ethiopia. He
was the 1996 recipient of the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his coverage of
the war in Chechnya.
In 1995 he
published two books with Acts Sud, one on the war in Chechnya
and the other on the genocide in Rwanda. Suau completed a ten-year
project in 1999 entitled Beyond the Fall, which documented the transformation
of the former Soviet bloc. An exhibition of that work was presented in London, New York, Washington, and in more than a dozen cities throughout Europe. His most recent book, Fear This, a look at the
Iraqi war as seen from the United
States will be published by Aperture in the
spring of 2004.
In 2007 he was
awarded the second Infinity award from the International Center of Photography.
In 2009 he won the World Press Photo of the Year for the second time for his
images on the US Economy Crisis.
