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