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SELECTED AWARDS

2012 CCNY Darkroom Resident

2010 Lange-Taylor Prize, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

2010 New York Foundation for the Arts

Fellow in Photography

2010 Women in Photography-LTI/Lightside Materials Grant

2010 Pictures of the Year International 67,

Portrait, Second Place

2009 Global Fund for Children/Nike Foundation/ICP Fellow

2009 Johnson & Johnson /ICP Fellow

2009 New York Photo Awards, Professional

Editorial Series, Nominee

2009 Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographers

2008 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize,

Finalist

2008 Julia Dean New Documentarian Award,

Second Place

2008 New York Photo Awards, Student Editorial Single, Nominee & Book Project, Winner

2008 PDN Photo Annual

2008 American Photography 24, Selected

2008 Review Santa Fe

2008 Elevation Photoshelter Student Contest, Winner

2007, 2008, 2009 International Photography Awards/Lucies

2008 Prix de la Photographie Paris,

Honorable Mention

2006-2007 New York Times Scholarship, International Center of Photography

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

LagosPhoto Festival

Lagos, Nigeria

October - November 2011

Contemporary Slavery

Exit Art, New York, NY

3 June - 5 August 2011

A View of Caring

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ

18 June - 31July 2011

Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism

Hannover, Germany

June 2010

Sombra Projects

New York Photo Festival, DUMBO, NY

May 2010

New Visonaires 2008

New York Photo Festival

DUMBO, NY

13-17 May 2009

NYMPHOTO Group Show IV

Sasha Wolf Gallery

New York, NY

23 May-6 June 2009

II AMERIKA, group exhibition

International Center of Photography

New York, NY

6 September-12 October 2008

FOTO8 Summer Show 2008

HOST Gallery

London

22 July-13 September 2008

NPPA Women In Photojournalism Conference Juried Exhibition

McKenna Museum of African American Art

New Orleans, LA

7-9 August 2008

AMERIKA, group exhibition

Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival

Brooklyn, NY

6-8 June 2008

EDUCATION/INTERNSHIPS

Teaching Assistant to Jane Evelyn Atwood, ICP Summer Workshop 2007 & 2008

Eddie Adams Workshop/Barnstorm XXI 2008

Internship with Stanley Greene/Noor Images,

Spring 2007

International Center of Photography, Documentary/Photojournalism Program

2006-07

Alvin Ailey American Dance Center 1996-97