About Susánica
There’s nothing like getting ready to leave a place that inspires images to be captured and moments to be frozen in memory. I’ve been leaving places all my life, but the good thing is that I’ve been continually introduced to new ones.
What I like about photojournalism is its ability to capture. Photos speak effortlessly through barriers erected by language, culture, and background differences. Images are like music: you don’t have to speak a common tongue to communicate with them.
Many photos featured on this site were shot in Peru. They were shot during a post-graduation eight-week solo backpacking trip. Possibly because it was the first trip of this magnitude that I had taken alone, the country made a deep and lasting impression on me. The trip helped to inspire the confidence in me to pursue photojournalism as a career.
My name is Susánica. I’m 25 and I’ve had five addresses in the last year, and many nights spent roadside in my car. It’s hard to believe, but I am joining the ranks of the working world. I graduated from the University of Southern California with a journalism degree the summer before last, and spent my time between working as a photojournalist in Mobile, Alabama (The Mobile Press-Register), and Santa Fe, New Mexico (The Santa New Mexican). I have recent travel experience all over North America, Peru, and the Indian subcontinent. I speak three languages fluently, two proficiently, and two conversationally. It’s been a wild ride and I’ve met some amazing people, and if you ask me, I wouldn’t have done anything differently.
The majority of my work here features my passion for the outdoors, on rock and ice. I also shoot news and other projects. These photos are currently not being displayed on the site but that may change in the future.
To inquire about prints, assignments, or salsa dancing, please contact me.
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The photos on this website are released under a Creative Commons license
My photos are protected by copyright. However, the web versions of my photos are free for non-commercial, non-derivative use with attribution, under this Creative Commons license. That means you can use my photos for non-profit or educational work, as long as you give me credit and don’t edit the photos. For all other uses, please contact me.
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