Episode 113: Anthony Suau (Photographer & Filmmaker)

Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and documentary film director Anthony Suau is also an Emmy Award winning journalist, not to mention two World Press Photo of the Year awards, the Robert Capa Gold Medal, and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography. For thirty-five years he has documented the effects of events on the lives of people around the world with a specific focus on revealing social, economic and political injustice. For more than twenty of those years he worked as a contract correspondent for TIME and the National Geographic Magazine. He is the author of four books and his images have appeared in thousands of publications, museums and films worldwide.  Suau was one of the co-founders of the non-profit collective Facing Change: Documenting America, which was founded in 2009 by a group of social minded photographers and writers to document the issues facing the United States during a time of economic crisis.

He has been based in Europe for 20 years and returned to live in New York in 2008.  We are chatting Latest film Organic Rising which is coming to a film festival near you and can be viewed now online.  The film explores the organic food industry, from farm to table, and the farmers and others involved in improving the US food supply.