{"id":3324,"date":"2026-07-29T21:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:17:06","slug":"akira-suwa-award-winning-photojournalist-at-the-inquirer-has-died-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3324","title":{"rendered":"Akira Suwa, award-winning photojournalist at The Inquirer, has died at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Akira Suwa, 84, of Laurel Springs, Camden County, award-winning longtime photojournalist at The Inquirer, mentor, and lifelong green-thumb gardener, died Tuesday, July 14, of complications from dementia at his home.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3322\">Phillies blow a six-run lead to get swept out of Miami<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Born in what is now South Korea and reared in Japan, Mr. Suwa came to the United States for good in 1967 as a landscape designer and amateur photographer. When a landscaping job at a Florida garden center dried up, he polished his photography skills and, from 1969 to his retirement in 2014, worked as an award-winning staff photographer at the Tampa Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times, the Palm Beach Post, and The Inquirer.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He joined The Inquirer in 1977 and, for 37 years, provided readers with thousands of illustrative, dramatic, stylish, and emotion-evoking photos from assignments around Philadelphia, South Jersey, and the world. He took poignant photos after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany, and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and during Operation Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia and the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Japan. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He sent back tragic and heroic images of conflict and despair from Libya and Brazil. He photographed drug traffickers in Colombia and was detained by authorities in China.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Locally, he photographed athletes celebrating and commiserating, politicians and celebrities walking and waving, fashion models on runways, and restaurant specialties on tables. Former Inquirer colleagues called him a \u201cbrilliant photojournalist\u201d and a \u201cfunny, engaging and terrific colleague\u201d on Facebook.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>One former colleague said: \u201cAkira told thousands of great stories with his camera.\u201d His family said in a tribute: \u201cAkira believed every story was worth telling.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Before the Inquirer, Mr. Suwa took photographs on all kinds of assignments for the Palm Beach Post, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Tampa Tribune. His father was an avid amateur photographer back in Japan, and Mr. Suwa honed his own emerging photo skills at nights and on weekends in Florida before joining the Tribune in 1969. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He won several awards from the National Press Photographers Association and was named the 1973 Florida Newspaper Photographer of the Year by the University of Florida. He mentored young photographers and students, and one former student said: \u201cHe taught me so much about making the best photos possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Away from the lens, Mr. Suwa enjoyed tending his backyard garden in South Jersey, watching the birds flit about the feeders, and chasing the squirrels away. His mother was a serious gardener in Japan, and he studied agriculture in California as an exchange student while earning a degree at Tokyo Agricultural University in 1966. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In 1964, he took a year off from college to work as a busser in the Japan pavilion at the World\u2019s Fair in New York. \u201cI fell in love with America, especially New York City,\u201d Mr. Suwa wrote in an autobiography he shared with his family. \u201cI was young and motivated to do something different from my peers back in Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Akira Suwa was born Dec. 22, 1941, in what was then Taegu, Korea.  He and his family fled Korea for Japan as refugees after World War II, and he grew up mainly in Osaka. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3320\">Jalen Hurts has high hopes for the 2026 season. He knows delivering on them requires his teammates sticking together.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He never formally studied photography, but his innate camera skills got him a job with a photo studio in Florida in the late 1960s. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He met Deborah Carter through a mutual friend at the studio, and he took her to see the musical <i>Hello, Dolly!<\/i> on their first date. She was smitten, she said, and they married in 1969, and had daughters Jasmine and Keiko. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>They settled in Laurel Springs when he joined The Inquirer and traveled to Japan several times to visit family and friends. \u201cWe enjoyed the best of both cultures,\u201d his wife said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Suwa listened to jazz and built his own home computers. He liked to play pranks on the girls, his daughter Keiko said, but was simultaneously warm, serious, and practical. \u201cIf there was a job to do,\u201d she said, \u201che would get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>His daughter Jasmine said: \u201cHe was forthright, sincere, and full of integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>He doted on his wife and their grandchildren, and his family praised \u201chis sharp eye, his mischievous sense of humor, and his devotion to his family.\u201d His wife said: \u201cHe had my back and was as honest as the day is long.\u201d <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Friends called him \u201cthe kindest person,\u201d \u201cwonderful and enormously talented,\u201d and \u201ca caring person to everyone.\u201d He was interviewed by Photo Lounge in 2022 and said: \u201cI just take pictures, and I like people.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>His wife said: \u201cHe was my human, my person, my guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In addition to his wife and daughters, Mr. Suwa is survived by two grandchildren and other relatives. A brother died earlier.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Visitation with the family is to be from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, at Gardner Funeral Home, 126 S. Black Horse Pike, Runnemede, N.J. 08078.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Donations in his name may be made to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Box 2675, New York, N.Y. 10108; and the Animal Welfare Association, 509 Centennial Blvd., Voorhees, N.J. 08043.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3318\">Switch to new digital tablets in N.J. prisons prompts civil rights lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He took poignant photos after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany, and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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