A native of North Syracuse, New York, Suzy studied communications at Lemoyne College in Syracuse and Environmental Science and Human Geography at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

My photography background

I started my career in photography at The Journal-News, a Gannett paper in Westchester County, New York. A year later, I was shooting sports regularly for The New York Times.

Editorial photography was something I loved and couldn’t get enough of. I was drawn to sports from the start: the body in motion, the sheer stress and wracked nerves of the games, the competition with other shooters, the warm summer nights of baseball.  

Working for a broad range of clients, I’ve moved in and out of sports, news, outdoor travel and recreation photography, from architecture to art and back to sports. Finally, I traded the sidelines for dams and culverts, wild places and urban watersheds.

But intelligent photography bridges the disciplines, drawing skills from different experience, so that my environmental services pictures may be imbued with energy and action, my architecture has the light of good portraiture, so a structure takes on almost human characteristics.

Environmental services photography — the art of drawing people to restoration and environmental protection projects through beautiful, intelligent, insightful images — takes inspiration through a love of place and exploration.  This is a love that was part of my life before photography, and it’s a natural fit for my skills and passion.

Today my clients want pictures that convey not just how a place looks, but — especially — what it feels like to be there. With every assignment, I burrow in. I live my assignments. Dogged research informs my shooting before I even pick up the camera. I get there early, stay late, thrive on intense situations, nail-biting deadlines, demanding clients.  I get to know people where they are, where they’ve come from, so I know what it’s like to be them, in this place, at this time.