Víctor Tadashi Suárez

Victor Tadashi Suarez is a documentary director of photography known for his unique visual style of filming. He covered the protests that erupted in Ferguson following the police killing of Michael Brown, for which he was nominated for an Emmy in 2015. Victor has also covered the protests in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray and the indigenous fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, North Dakota. His work internationally includes covering the aftermath of the 43 students disappeared in Mexico, the assassination of activist Berta Cáceres in Honduras, President Duterte's drug war in the Philippines, the plight of Afghan translators hunted by the Taliban in Afghanistan, and seafood slaves in Southeast Asia. He is the primary cinematographer for the investigative doc series Fault Lines, on Al Jazeera English, for which he has received four documentary Emmy award nominations. He has also shot for PBS Frontline and is one of the primary DPs for Explorer on National Geographic.