Awards & Grants
Paul Huf Award, FOAM Amsterdam- Nomination 2024
Pollok-Krasner Award, USA - Nomination 2024
Prix Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson - Nomination, 2023
Grand Prix Images Vevey - Finalist, 2023
Images Vevey Book Award - Finalist, 2023
MAST Foundation Prize — Overall Winner, 2020
MAST Foundation - Selected Grantee, 2019
Prix Elysée - Selected Nominee 2018-2020
Aesthetica Prize - Shortlisted Artist, 2017
FOAM Talent - Selected Artist,2017
Nominee Prix de la photo Madame Figaro, 2016
Swiss Foundation for Photography–Commission, 2016
Nominee FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards, 2015
British Council/Arts Council England–International Developent Fund, 2014
KALA Art Institute Fellowship Award, Berkeley, 2014
Foam Paul Huf Award - Nomination, 2013
Terry O'Neill Award–Finalist, 2013
Prix Pictet–Nomination, 2013
Lucie Awards - International Photographer of the Year, 2012
Nominee Magnum Emergency Fund, 2012
Nominee Prix Pictet, 2012
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award, 2012
Magnum Expression Award - Finalist, 2011
World Press Photo-Joop Swart Masterclass - Selected Participant, 2011
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize - Selected artist, 2011
Encontros da Imagem Braga Photography Award - Finalist, 2011
PX3 Prix Pour la Photographie - Gold medal in Fine Art & Portraiture, 2011
Prix HSBC Pour La Photographie, France, 2011
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award, 2011
The Aftermath Project - Grant Finalist, 2011
Visas de l'Association Nationale des Iconographes - Finalist, 2011
Getty Images - Emerging Talent, 2010
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward - UK winner, 2010
FotoVisura Grant - Finalist, 2010
Center, Santa Fe – Second Prize editor’s choice, 2010
New York Photo Festival Awards - Finalist artist book, 2009
Education & Residencies
2000-2004
University of Edinburgh, UK
MA Honours in Social Anthropology & Development
2002-2003
University of Bologna, Italy (ERASMUS)
Political Science & Visual Anthropology
2007-2008
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Graduate Certificate Program
2010/11
Artist-in-Residence at L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie, Arles, France.
2013
SOMA Summer Residency, Mexico City
2014
KALA Art Institute, Berkeley
Nirox Foundation, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa
Writer-in-residence, ART 21 Magazine
2015
BMW Artist-in-Residence at Nicéphore Niépce Museum
Public & Institutional collections
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), USA
FOAM Museum, Amsterdam
Musée de l’Elysée, Switzerland
MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
The Swiss Foundation of Photography, Winterthur
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, France
BMW Art & Culture Collection, France
Soho House Art Collection, Global
Colección Banregio, Monterrey, Mexico
The Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston USA
The Life Collection, South Africa
The Nelson Mandela Foundation, South Africa
The Wittliff Collections, Texas
Fundación Casa Medina Sidonia, Spain
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
HSBC France/Fondation de France
Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG), USA
Museo Casa de Africa, Havana Cuba
FOLI Museo de la Fotografía de Lima, Peru
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, USA