Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
2021 - Photographs a story for National Geographic Magazine titled La Familia. Will be published in 2023. Author Luis Alberto Urrea collaborates on project.
2020 Completes two short films for Channel 4 in England about Jedidiah Brown in Chicago and A Voice in the Woods about the attempted lynching of Black activist Vauhxx Booker in Bloomington, Indiana.
2019 Travels to Edinburgh, Scotland to give TED TALK Family, Hope and Resilience on the migrant trail. More than 2,000,000 views. Named a National Geographic Explorer.
2018 Receives Economic Hardship Reporting Fellowship for La Familia Project. Teaches NIKON/NOOR Masterclass in Stockholm, Sweden.
2017 Starts production on The Advocate - a short feature length film about Black activist Jedidiah Brown. Documents the victims and their families of Chicago Police Department Detective Ernesto Guevara for Buzzfeed Magazine. Produces 12 screen experimental film Cenotaph 12 which is featured at multiple international film and photography festivals.
2016 Photographs entire Chicago Bears Football Season for ESPN THE MAGAZINE - work is featured on national television.
2015 Exhibition of South Side Duke University Center for Documentary Studies
2014 Works extensively with a group of youth in Escondido, California over two summers to produce a trans-media project Escondido en Escondido i
Awarded Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize
Awarded TED Senior Fellowship
2013
Open Society Foundation Audience Engagement Grantee
2011
Hasselblad Master
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
TED Global Fellow
2008
Alicia Patterson Foundation - Joseph Patterson Albright Fellow
2007
Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography - Shadow Lives USA
64th POYi Community Awareness Award - Judges Special Recognition
World Press Photo 2nd Place Daily Life Stories
USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism Racial Justice Fellowship
2005
National Press Photographer's Association Cliff Edom's New America Award
2004
World Press Photography Competition Singles Nature-3rd place
2003
Nikon Sabbatical Grant - From Guerrero to Gringolandia and Back
2000
58th Annual POYi Contest Magazine Photographer of the Year
58th AnnualPictures of the Year Contest Community Awareness Award
IPPA - Photographer of the Year - 2nd place
1999
University of Missouri 57th Annual Pictures of the Year Contest - 3rd Place Feature Photograph
National Press Photographers Association Region 5 Photographer of the Year
1998
Copley Newspapers “Ring of Truth” Award - Best Feature Photograph
1994
Barnstorm VII The Eddie Adams Photographic Workshop Liberty, New York
1993
Follet Fellowship Columbia College One year graduate study in photography
1992
University of Iowa Fine Arts Council Grant for photographic projecton the Basque country
Stanley Undergraduate Award for photographic documentary project in the Basque Country