Anthony Suau

Born in the United States, Anthony Suau was based in Europe for 20 years and returned to live in New York in 2008. He has dedicated his career to documenting the effects of international events on the lives of people around the world.

Suau was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his images of the famine in Ethiopia and the World Press Photo of the Year in 1987. He was the 1996 recipient of the Robert Capa Gold Medal 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 10-year project in 1999 entitled "Beyond the Fall," which documented the transformation of the former Soviet bloc. Exhibitions of that work were presented in London, New York, Washington and in more than a dozen cities throughout Europe. His book, Fear This, a look at the Iraqi war as seen from the United States, was published by Aperture.

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 U.S. economy crisis.

Biography text from Suau's portfolio website.

Suau was awarded the 1984 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography "for a series of photographs which depict the tragic effects of starvation in Ethiopia and for a single photograph of a woman at her husband's gravesite on Memorial Day," according to the Pulitzer Board.

Anthony Suau’s Pulitzer Prize-winning images can be found on his website.