Currently in Ithaca, NY, US
Jessica Suarez is a wildlife and conservation photographer, filmmaker, and National Geographic Explorer (2021). Her work explores humans’ relationship to the environment, scientific research, wild spaces, and the wild lives of animals. She grew up outside of Atlanta and has worked extensively in the southeastern United States and the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. She holds a master's degree in Photography from Syracuse University (Newhouse) and B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Colby College. She also is the multimedia director and co-founder of the conservation non-profit the Tropical Conservation Fund. Her work has been published with The New York Times, National Geographic.com, NPR, Greenpeace, Catchlight, and Mongabay among others. She is an International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) grantee, ACEER Foundation Conservation Fellow, an Eric Hosking Trust recipient, a member of Women Photograph, and a National Geographic Field Ready Program mentee. She lives in Ithaca, New York where she works as an associate producer on the Conservation Media team the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. She is a licensed drone pilot and Wilderness First Aid and Basic Canopy Access Proficient certified.
jess.a.suarez@gmail.com
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Select Awards & Exhibitions
2023 “Recovery and Redemption: Documenting the Red Wolf in the American
South,” Solo Exhibition, Red Wolf Education Center, Colombia, NC -
supported by the Eric Hosking Charitable Trust
2023 “Recovery and Redemption: Documenting the Red Wolf in the American
South,” Solo Exhibition, Hayfields Market, North Salem, NY, hosted with the
2022 Eric Hosking Charitable Trust bursary recipient
2022 “Recovery and Redemption: Documenting the Red Wolf in the American
South,” Solo Exhibition, Reflection Riding, Chattanooga, TN - supported by
the National Geographic Society
2021 National Geographic Field Ready Program mentee
2021 National Geographic Society Early Career Storytelling Grant recipient
2020 Women Photograph Year in Pictures, curated by Oriana Koren
2020 National Geographic Second Assistant grantee
2019 Women Photograph Year in Pictures, curated by Preston Gannaway
2019 Reverie Group Exhibition, curated by Tim Wride, Atlanta Photography Gallery,
Atlanta
2019 Southern Currents Group Exhibition, John’s Creek Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2018 Fund for Women Journalists, International Women’s Media Foundation
(IWMF), professional development grantee
2018 Rachel Reese Selects Group Exhibition, Atlanta Celebrates Photography,
Atlanta Photography Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Amazon Conservation Association, Villa Carmen
Biological Station, Peru
2015 Photoville, Create Observe Reflect Engage Group Exhibition, Curated by
Susan Welchman & Lynn Johnson
2014 West Award, Momenta: Project New Orleans Non-Profit Photography
Workshop, LA
2013 Light Work Student Invitational Exhibition, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2013 College Photographer of the Year (CPOY), Award, Silver in Interpretive Eye
Category
2010 Invisible Lives Exhibition, Awamaki, Ollantaytambo, Peru
Scientific Publications
2020 Acta Amazonica, March 2020, “Habitat use, fruit consumption, and population density of the black-headed night monkey, Aotus nigriceps, in southeastern Peru,” coauthor
2018 Journal of Neotropical Primates - Conservation International, “Bioacoustics of black- headed night monkey, Aotus nigriceps,” coauthor
