Violence & Tear Gas by Anthony Suau
'Violence & Tear Gas'
Spot News, first prize stories
00-06-1987
During weeks of violent anti-government protests, police and students confronted each other all over Seoul, but other citizens too frequently found themselves trapped by the violence as tear gas filled the streets.
Commissioned by: Black Star
Photo Credit: Anthony Suau
Anthony Suau (Peoria, Illinois, USA, 1956) has dedicated his career to documenting the effects of international events on the lives of people around the world.
Suau started his career at the Chicago Sun Times in 1976 and later joined the Denver Post. In 1985, he moved to New York City to work for Black Star agency. He was a contract photographer for Time magazine between 1991 and 2009. 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.
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