[citation needed] He worked for the Chicago Sun-Times, and The Denver Post,[1] 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,[2] 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.
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.