Does anyone know if Anthony Suau shoots Leica? I just discovered his BxW exhibition entitled “Beyond the Fall” which depicts the transformation former Soviet bloc. Beautiful work. If he does use Leica is it R or M or both?

David

P.S. This is the link to his work:

http://www.time.com/time/btf/index_intro.html

-- David Enzel (dhenzel@vei.net), August 05, 2001

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Hi, David: Really I don't care whether he does . . . but what a great work of photography and art he has done. Thanks for sharing. I can hardly remember a better lesson on History and photography. Though the much I have read and watched on TV on these subjects I never had a sound idea of what happened on those countries except that whatever it was it was a pitty. Now I have a much better idea. This is real great photography and history, no matter what it was done with. Thanks again, David

-Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), August 05, 2001.

David:

Wow. Thanks for the link. IMO, it doesn't matter what he used to capture these images. Phenomenal.

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), August 05, 2001.

I understand he shoots with a M for the most part. And yes, the photos are really something special. The horse in front of the small house in Romania is my favorite.

-- Russell Brooks (russell@ebrooks.org), August 06, 2001.

Hallo David,

thank you for pointing out the photographs of ANTHONY SUAU !

I have seldom seen such terrific work! What a contrast between the dead, normal people, soldiers, rebels, (living) politicians. The burning cities and the posh interiors only the touch of a fingertip on the keyboard apart for us. Visions burning into the soal.

As a photographer, I guess, you can only bear seeing all this viewing it through the filter of you camera.

K. G. Wolf

-- K. G. Wolf (k.g.wolf@web.de), August 06, 2001.

Talent such as this leaves me slack-jawed in awe...

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), August 06, 2001.

God that´s what photography is for, thank´s for your sugestion David, Suau is for certain heir of Koudelka´s transparen way of seeing, he doesn´t watch, he sees with a soul free of prejudgements, he is free and makes all witness of is work free too.Thank´s indeed.

-- r watson (al1231234@hotmail.com), August 06, 2001.

I e-mailed Anthony Suau and he has 3 M6s and primarily uses the 28 mm and 35 mm lenses.

-- David Enzel (dhenzel@vei.net), August 06, 2001.

Great, David ! Now we are all happy, aren't we . . .? -Iván

-- Iván Barrientos M (ingenieria@simltda.tie.cl), August 07, 2001.

Suau's Eastern Europe exhibition is now in Prague. It will be open until 31st August. Come and see. Great work, really.

-- J. Major (jmajor@login.cz), August 12, 2001.

he is one of the best photojournalist today, what I like to know where is he been, we haven't seen his work for a while, he's got the perfect eye for the picture.

-- RAFFI KIRBI (raffi@altavista.com), October 05, 2001.

I am blown away by Suau.

You can find more work from him at here. His work is even better than James Nachtwey's take on the same subject.

I just bought an M6. It's going to be delivered in a couple of days. I've got a long way to go.

Cheers,

-- David Carson (dave@davidcarson.com), October 06, 2001.

Anthony Suau was here in Budapest in the late 90's to make a trip in our country (Hungary). Two hungarian photojournalist (one was my theacher, the other is my friend) were accompanied him to a town called Ózd. This town is a communist-industrial place with lots of abandoned foundry, factory etc. He used Leica M6 (3 body) with 28 and 35 lenses. He measured the light with a handy lightmeter, the film was Tri-X.

Kris

-- Krisztian Kiszely (kcris@freemail.hu), January 29, 2002.

Why can I not take pictures like that? Why? Why?

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), January 29, 2002.