EXHIBITIONS
2016 IX Gallery, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2016 Pendulum Gallery, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Canada Has Changed, Toronto, Canada
2015 'The Collective' at O'born Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2011 Home – The Boreal Collective, Bau-Xi Photo, Toronto, Canada
2011 Re: Mapping the Flâneur, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle, UK
2011 ‘Collective Encounter’, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, United Kingdom
2011 ‘Thousand’, Pikto Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010 ‘FotoGrafia Rome’, Rome, Italy
2010 ‘Stories from Vancouver’, Walrus, Vancouver, Canada
2010 ‘Warzone’, Da Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010 ‘Warzone’, The Tobacco Warehouse, New York Photo Festival, Brooklyn, New York
AWARDS
2016 1st place Social Issues, News Photographers Association of Canada, Pictures of the Year Competition
2016 2nd place Picture Story, News Photographers Association of Canada, Pictures of the Year Competition
2016 Nominee, Photojournalist of the Year, News Photographers Association of Canada, Pictures of the Year Competition
2014 Garden State Teen Book Awards nomination
2012 USBBY Outstanding International Books Award
2012 Notable Books for a Global Society Book Award
2012 Eric Hoffer Award for Beyond Bullets
2011 Book of the Year Award, ForeWord Reviews
2011 National Newspaper Award – Nominee
2011 Magenta Flash Forward for Emerging Photographers – Winner
2010 Magenta Flash Forward for Emerging Photographers – Winner
2010 Photo of the Year, News Photographers Association of Canada
2010 1st place General News, News Photographers Association of Canada, Pictures of the Year Competition
2009 1st place Picture Story of the Year, News Photographers Association of Canada, Pictures of the Year Competition
2009 2nd place Portrait/Personality, News Photographers Association of Canada, Pictures of the Year Competition
2009 3rd place General News, News Photographers Association of Canada, Pictures of the Year Competition
2008 2nd place Best of Photojournalism, Feature Video, National Press Photographers Association
BOOKS
2011 Beyond Bullets
2011 Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward Emerging Photographers
2010 Dudes of War
2010 Warzone: The battle of peacekeeping
2010 Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward Emerging Photographers
2010 Thunder Over Kandahar
EDUCATION
2003 - 2007 Langara College Photography Certificate Program, Vancouver, Canada
PRESS
- Committee to Protect Journalists - Journalists Face Violence
- The Globe and Mail, Arts - Thousand
- National Post, Arts - The Boreal Collective
- VICE - Canada Has Changed
- TIME Lightbox - The Photo Collective Makes Its Comeback
OTHER
2016 Ali Mustafa Memorial Award Selection Committee
2011 Speaker coordinator for News Photographers Association of Canada, the annual Photojournalism Conference
2010 Founding member of the Boreal Collective, Canadian Documentary Photographer Collective