Sanjay Suchak
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2023–24 Practitioner Fellow in Democracy, UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy
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Photographer and Director
Sanjay Suchak is an American photographer and director known for his work with popular musical artists, global brands and documenting issues of modern social justice.
His camera has taken him around the world as the photographer for the Dave Matthews Band and Public Enemy as well as the video director for Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats. Additionally he has toured with Slightly Stoopid, the Grateful Dead, and Trey Anastasio.
His work from 2017–2024 covering the efforts to remove Confederate statues and memorials in the South is considered by many to be the most comprehensive look inside the process process to remove the statues. The project concluded with him being granted permission to document the melting of the Charlottesville statue of Robert E. Lee. These photos and all his photojournalism work are represented exclusively by the Monroe Gallery of Photography in Santa Fe, NM.
Suchak has done commercial commissions for clients ranging from banks to universities to nonprofits. For 10 years, he was the senior photographer at the University of Virginia.
His work resides in many private collections as well as that of the Spencer Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art—Los Angeles, the University of Virginia Special Collections, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and others.
His first book is Shout & Roar: 21st Century UVA in 200 Photos (UVA Press, fall 2027).