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