Leonard Sussman

Leonard Sussman is an American photographer born in San Francisco in 1947. He has been making photographs for almost 60 years, with individual and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His work often explores landscape, abstraction, movement, space, time, and the difficulty of understanding scale.

Sussman studied art at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He is Professor Emeritus of Art at Baruch College of the City University of New York. His photographs are included in major collections such as the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.

In recent years, Sussman has focused much of his work on polar landscapes, including several trips to Svalbard, a journey to the Antarctic Peninsula, and a 52-day voyage to the North Pole on the United States Coast Guard icebreaker Healy. (Website, Instagram)