Leonard Sussman was born in San Francisco in 1947. He has been a photographer for almost 60 years. He studied art at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned an M.F.A. at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He is Professor Emeritus of Art at Baruch College of the City University of New York. His work is in collections including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museum of the City of New York and the Brooklyn Museum.
In recent years he has largely photographed in polar places. These include six trips to the Svalbard archipelago and a 52-day voyage to the North Pole in 2022 on the US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy.
His book From Brooklyn to the North Pole (Daylight Books, 132 pages) follows that voyage. It combines Arctic landscapes with photographs of the scientific work on the ship. It includes essays by Captain Kenneth J. Boda and Lauren W. Juranek.
