Photojournalist and Commercial Photographer
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Erika Nina Suárez (b.1993) is an American photographer born and raised in West Palm Beach, FL. She was brought up in a multigenerational household with her Hungarian mother, Nicaraguan father, and maternal grandparents. Erika's family sought asylum in the United States in the early 1980s in order to escape enlistment to the frontlines of the Contra War in Nicaragua and to flee from the collapse of the Hungarian People's Republic.
Erika's upbringing and her family's unique lifestyle have significantly influenced her style and how she chooses to approach her practice.
Suárez's ongoing personal project Left of the Stream, Between Two Mountains, is rooted in her desire to reconnect with Hungarian culture and her ancestry that her mother and grandparents were forced to abandon. Living a culturally split existence between America and Hungary, Suárez pairs a personal visual sequence of century-old Hungarian village traditions alongside intimate portraits of her extended family members abroad, and immediate family living in the US. Utilizing medium and large format film as her great-grandfather once did, she captures her subjects with the paralleling intent of her ancestors by using photography to eternally preserve their physical existence.
Erika is currently living and working between Hungary, NYC, and Texas.
Selected clients include The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Dallas Morning News, and the University of Texas Systems.
Erika is also a recipient of the 2021 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund awarded by the Dallas Museum of Art and is a member of The Luupe and the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA).
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY The University of Texas at Arlington / Arlington, TX / April 2021 – Present
This role is a multifaceted, client-facing position that is responsible for capturing, retouching, delivering, and archiving a wide range of digital assets for the University of Texas at Arlington’s Multimedia, Marketing, and Messaging teams. Consistent collaboration with art directors, writers, graphic designers, freelance photographers, and illustrators. This role is creatively driven, with a focus on brand engagement and visual storytelling strategies for magazines, news stories, and ad campaigns.
Photoshoots are executed on-campus, in studio, and off-site photo shoots.
Arts Fort Worth / Fort Worth, TX / June 2020 – April 2021
Produced and edited supplemental video content for viewers to easily access online. Hosted artist discussions and juried panels through inclusive digital formats. Edited and delivered digital image files promptly following special events and opening exhibition receptions to be utilized for promotional and archival use. Cataloged photographed artworks for internal archiving. Coordinated social media platform reach and engagement by data monitoring.
Coupralux/Dallas, Texas/ November 2019 - March 2020
Concentrated expertise in digital color management, editing, file management, and giclée printing of image-based materials for blue chip artists across the United States. Seasoned in the utilization of Adobe Suite Software to execute editing a wide array of artwork,
including photographic images.
Tailored close creative collaboration with clients and regional galleries
Focus exhibition at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (1/20)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography the University of North Texas
2016-2019
