Education
MFA 2010 Transmedia Photography, Syracuse University
BFA 2007 Intermedia Photography, West Virginia University
Awards
Silvereye Fellowship Award
Foam Talent Award
Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award
Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award Winner
Critical Mass top 50
Onward: Emerging Photography Selection
Clarence John Laughlin Award Finalist
Critical Mass top 200
Center, of Santa Fe, Juror’s Choice Award: Project Competition
Syracuse Humanities Fellowship recipient
Selected Exhibitions
Human/Nature: Lishui Photography Festival China. Lishui Photography Museum China
Keeper of the Hearth: Traveling exhibition.
Know South:No South: Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta Georgia
Past Present Future: Western Pennsylvaina’s People and Places: Silvereye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
10th Photographic Image Biennial: Wellingtong B. Grey Gallery, East Carolina University
Silvereye Fellowship Exhibition: Silvereye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Off the Web on the Wall: SPE, Cleveland Ohio
Looking at Appalachia Exhibition: Traveling exhibition
9th Photographic Image Biennial: Wellingtong B. Grey Gallery, East Carolina University
Fraction of a Second, 516 Arts Gallery, Albuquerque New Mexico
Foam Talent Exhibition, Atelier Neerlandais, Paris – De Markten, Brussels
Magenta Flash Forward Exhibition, Boston and Tornonto
Fotofilmic Exhibition, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, NYC – Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver Canada – Space 22 Gallery, Seoul Korea
Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
The American South: Morris Museum, Agusta Georgia
Slow Exposures Exhibition: Concord Georgia
Leopold Godowsky Jr Color Photography Award Exhibition: Photographic Resource Center, Boston Massachusets
Born and Raised: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh Pensylvania
How One Thing Leads To Another: Corden/Potts Gallery, San Francisco California - Center for Photography, Houston Texas
Scrutiny After the Glimpse, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
9/50: Southeast Arts Summit, Atlanta Arts Center, Atlanta Georgia
Continuum: Doug Dubois and Aaron Blum, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
The Family, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Detroit Michigan
New Directions, Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara California - Seattle Washington
Houston Center for Photography 30th Members Exhibition, Houston, Texas
Permanent Collections
Houston Museum of Fine Art
Haggerty Museum of Art
Duke University Documentary Studies
Selected Publications
Keeper of the Hearth
Southern Cultures UNC Press
Foam Talent
The Ones We Love
Fraction Magazine
Exploring Color Photography 5th edition
Magenta Foundation emerging artist
Next Level magazine
Four Way Review issue
Online Blogs/Reviews/Press
The New Yorker
New York Times
Burn Magazine
BBC
CNN
Feature Shoot
Slate
Conscientious
Photo Eye
Slate
Lenscratch
Boston Globe