Ed Suba

My interest in journalism began in high school in Eastlake, Ohio, where I grew up. I switched majors from magazine journalism to photojournalism at Bowling Green State University, from which I graduated with a BS in photojournalism in 1975. I have been a working photojournalist for 27 years, the last 18 as a staff photographer for the Akron Beacon Journal. I began my career in Indiana at The Goshen (Indiana) News, and have worked at The Painesville (Ohio) Telegraph, the Warren (Ohio) Tribune Chronicle and the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette. I have been the president of the Ohio News Photographers Association for the past eight years and was an adjunct instructor of photojournalism for five years at Kent State University.

I have been the ONPA's Photographer of the Year three times, a four-time winner of the ONPA Ohio Understanding Award for in-depth photojournalism, ONPA Clip POY once, the NPPA Region Four POY in 1995. I have judged a number of state POY contests in Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania.