2019   Fitler Club Artist in Residency
           The Print Center 94th Annual International Competition

2014   Pulitzer Prize Nomination for “New Leash on Life” series of articles, The Philadelphia Inquirer
2012   Pulitzer Prize, Shared with the Philadelphia Inquirer
2002   Ruben V. Burrell Photography Award. Hampton University Museum. Hampton, VA.

2001   Pew Fellowship in the Arts

           Margaret Danby Visual Arts Award. Black Liberated Arts Center. Oklahoma City, OK     

           Jurors Award and Purchase Award. Perkins Center for the Arts. Moorestown, NJ.            

           Award of Merit. Society for Publication Design. New York, NY.Award of
           Society for News Design,  Award of Excellence. New York, NY. 1999     

           Jurors Award and Purchase Award. Perkins Center for the Arts. Moorestown, NJ.

1998    Silver Metal. Society for Publication Design. New York, NY. 1997                      

           Jurors Award and Purchase Award. Perkins Center for the Arts. Moorestown, NJ.
           One of the 50 Artists to Watch, Seven Arts Magazine. Philadelphia, PA.

1996   Best of Show. Penn Charter Arts Festival. Philadelphia, PA.

1995   National Newspaper Magazine Society Award for Documentary Photography

1992   Nation Press Photographers / Association University of Missouri Pictures of the Year awards, Third Place           

           Associated Press Managing Editors Award
           World Press Awards,Third Prize, Daily Life Stories, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
           Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award