biography


2010 Canada Council for the Arts Grant
  • Research Grant for Project on Vietnamese Life
2010 Foto Freo Festival
  • Slideshow Exhibition for Haiti Earthquake Aftermath
2010 PDN Photo Annual Contest
  • Winner in Personal Category for Origins a personal project with support from the Canada Council for the Arts
2009 Travel Photographer of the Year Competition
  • Finalist for the 2009 Travel Photographer of the Year
  • Special Honourable Mentioned for Nephew Still Sleeping for Best Single Image
2009 La Bodega Photography Festival
  • Print Exhibition for the series Origins
2009 Photography Book Now International Competition
  • Honourable Mentioned for Origins
  • Honourable Mentioned for Happy, No Happy and the Art of the Eight Limbs
2009 Prix De La Photography, Paris
  • First Place in Non-Professional Photojournalism: Travel/Tourism for Gypsy Family in Chania
  • First Place in Non-Professional Book Proposal: Documentary for Happy, No Happy
  • Third Place in Non-Professional Photojournalism: People for Origins
2008 Billboard Year in Music Moment Photo Contest Winner
  • Breaking the Band: CD Cover Proposal for Natasha Duchene
2008 International Expose Your World Competition
  • Grand Prize Photo Essay Winner for Abandoned
  • Honourable Mentioned Photo Essay Winner for Muay Thai Culture
2008 Canada Council for the Arts Grant
  • Research Grant for Project on Vietnamese Origins and Identity
2008 International Photography Awards
  • Non-Professional Portrait Photographer of the Year for Muay Thai Culture #1
  • First Place Winner in Non-Professional People: Lifestyle for Muay Thai Culture #1
  • First Place Winner in Non-Professional People: Family for Gypsy Family in Chania
  • First Place Winner in Non-Professional People: Other for Muay Thai Culture #1
  • Second Place Winner in Non-Professional Editorial: Other for Gypsy Family in Chania
  • Second Place Winner in Non-Professional Editorial: Feature Story for Gypsy Family in Chania
  • Third Place Winner in Non-Professional Editorial: Feature Story for Muay Thai Culture #1
  • Third Place Winner in Non-Professional People: Lifestyle for Happy, No Happy #1
  • Third Place Winner in Non-Professional People: Other for Happy, No Happy #2
  • Third Place Winner in Non-Professional Architecture: Historic for Finn Slough
  • Third Place Winner in Non-Professional Special: Travel/Tourism for Daily Living/Bangkok
2008 Berenice Abbott Prize for an Emerging Photographer
  • Second Place for Happy, No Happy and the Art of the Eight Limbs
2008 B&W Magazine Single Image Contest
  • Silver Award Winner
2007 International Photography Awards
  • Non-Professional Editorial Photographer of the Year for Abandoned
  • First Place Winner in Non-Professional Editorial: Photo Essay for Abandoned
  • First Place Winner in Non-Professional Editorial: Other for Downtown Eastside #3
  • First Place Winner in Non-Professional Editorial: Personality for Downtown Eastside #2
  • First Place Winner in Non-Professional Nature: Other for Abandoned
  • Second Place Winner in Non-Professional Special: Travel/Tourism for Majico
  • Third Place Winner in Non-Professional Nature: Trees for Dead Tree
  • Third Place Winner in Non-Professional Special: Other for Downtown Eastside #2
2007 B&W Magazine Portfolio Contest
  • Excellence Award Winner
2007 B&W Magazine Single Image Contest
  • Silver Award Winner
  • Bronze Award Winner
  • Honourable Mentioned
2007 London Photographic Awards
  • Second Place in Landscape
2007 Prix de la Photography, Paris
  • First Place in Non-Professional Photojournalism: Travel/Tourism for Majico
  • Third Place in Non-Professional Photojournalism: People/Personality for Downtown Eastside #1
2006 International Photography Awards
  • Second Place in Non-Professional Special: Travel/Tourism for Street Candids of Children in Mexico
  • Third Place in Non-Professional Nature: Landscapes for Down by the Seaside
2006 PhotoLife Image International Photography Contest
  • First Place Category Winner for Dancing in the Golden Age
  • Fourth Place Category Winner for Salton Sea Trailer