My image, "At the Gorge," is to be exhibited at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in Atlanta as part of the Critical Mass Top 50 Exhibition.  Esteemed curator and collector W.M. Hunt curated this exhibition.

Jennifer Schwartz Gallery

675 Drewry Street, Suite 6, Atlanta, 30306

May 17th - July 13th, 2013

I am a recipient of this year's Kolga Award.  Six awards were given out and my In the Landscape work received the one in the Conceptual Category. 

As part of the award, my work was exhibited at the Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2013 in Tbilisi, Georgia from May 1 - 7.

I received this year's CENTER Gallerist's Choice Award, 3rd Place.  This competition was juried by Lauren Panzo, Director of the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York, NY.

As part of this award, photographs from the winning series (In the Landscape) will be exhibited at the CENTER space in June 2013.

Nice review of my recent exhibition, WaterLand, at Gallery Carte Blanche.

"In and By the River" and "At the Salt Flats" from the In the Landscape project were displayed at the Lucie Foundation's exhibition space at photo l.a. January 17-21, 2013.

The Center for Documentary Studies published an interview with me about my work from In the Landscape, Promised Lands, and other projects and my working process.  The interview, conducted by a student at CDS, is posted online on their website, CDS Porch.

"At the Air Strip", 2012, from the In the Landscape project was featured on Flak Photo of the day on November 9, 2012.

Both this photograph and "On a Cliff (Overlooking the Surf)", which was in Flak Photo's Looking at the Land traveling exhibition, are included in the Flak Photo  Collection.

"On an Overlook" from the In the Landscape series was included in Daniel Cooney Fine Art's Emerging Photographers Auction in New York.  To see the print, please visit:

Daniel Cooney Fine Art

508 W 26th St #9C  New York, NY 10001

Andy Adams from Flak Photo has chosen "On a Cliff (Overlooking the Surf)" from my In the Landscape series to be part of the Looking at the Land exhibition.  This show is part of RISD Museum of Art's current show, America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, and will be up from Friday, September 21, 2012 to January, 13, 2013.  The exhibition has already been featured in:

• Time Lightbox 
• American Photo
• The Digital Photo Book

I have been nominated for 2013 PDN's 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch. Final selections haven't been announced yet, so I am crossing my fingers.

Work from my In the Landscape series has received a Second Place award from Rose Marasco for Gallery Photographica's New Images Photography Awards.  In addition to the award, my work will be included in an exhibition at Studio 17 in San Francisco.  The opening reception is from 6 to 9 pm on Saturday, November 10th, 2012.

My In the Landscape series is featured in ARCHIVOzine's Autumn issue on landscape photography.  You can take a look at the digital publication here. (Honestly, it's a beautifully designed magazine with very interesting writing.)  A hard-copy book containing this and the three other issues of the year will be published at the end of the year.

Last month I was interviewed by PDN about my artist residency at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.  This interview, conducted by Holly Hughes, editor of PDN, is featured online and is in the current (November 2012) print issue of PDN. 

I am very excited to announce that I received the APA/Lucie Foundation Scholarship Grant of $5,000.  This grant will be used for my new series investigating the natural and landscape places where people have committed suicide. 

I will receive the award at the Tenth Annual Lucie Awards in at the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom in Los Angeles on Monday, October 8, 2012.

I am very excited to announce my first solo exhibition of my In the Landscape series at Gallery 1401 at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.  This exhibition was curated by Harris Fogel, Associate Professor of Photography.  Sixteen images from this project will be shown on the gallery walls.

Dates: August 17 – Sept 14

Reception: TBD

Gallery 1401 of Photography

Terra Hall, 14th Foor

University of the Arts

211 South Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19102

In collaboration with Review Santa Fe, Fraction Magazine has issued a special edition of the 2012 award winners.  Work from my "In the Landscape" project, which won Review Santa Fe's Project Launch Honorable Mention award, is included in this special edition. 

Work from my "In the Landscape" project, which won a Project Launch Honorable Mention award selected by Virginia Heckert, J. Paul Getty Museum is included in this exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art as part of Review Santa Fe's 2012 award winners. 

Dates: May 25 - August 26, 2012

New Mexico Museum of Art

107 West Palace Avenue

Santa Fe, NM 87501

I am very pleased to announce that several photographs from both my In the Landscape and Promised Lands projects have been shown in the August installment of the Lucie Foundation's Pro'jekt LA Summer Series, juried by Jade Tran.

Date & Reception: August 2, 2012

Space15Twenty

1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90028

Two of my photographs, "In the Snow Forest" (above) and "In the Gorge" were selected by Lisa Sutcliffe, Associate Curator at the SFMOMA, for inclusion for the Transient States exhibition at SF Camerawork.  The above photograph was also selected by Lisa Sutcliffe to be used as the singular image of the show's postcard.

Dates: July 10 - August 25, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, July 13, 2012, 5 - 8pm

SF Camerawork

1011 Market Street #2

San Francisco, CA 94103

Two photographs, "Untitled (Yilan)" (above) and "Untitled (Winston)," from my Promised Lands project were selected for the Equivalents exhibition juried by W.M Hunt at the Photo Center NW in Seattle.  The above photograph was also singled out for an Honorable Mention award.

Dates: August 3 - September 18, 2012
Reception: Friday, August 3, 2012, 8 - 9:45pm
Lecture: W.M. Hunt, Friday, August 3, 7pm at the Seattle Art Museum

Photo Center NW

900 12th Avenue

Seattle, WA 98122