Awards
2023 Swiss Press Photo, 2. Platz Kategorie Ausland, Bern, Schweiz
2023 Photoville, 2. Platz, Olten, Schweiz
2022 Image Arts Wall of Fame, Toronto Metropolitan Universität, Toronto, Canada
2020 Sundance Film Festival, Film Premiere After The Fallout, Park City, USA
2019 Prix Pictet, Nomination, Zurich
2018 Swiss Press Photo, Finalist, Feature, Zurich
2017 Leica Oskar Barnack, Finalist, Berlin
2017 Prix Pictet, nomination, Zurich
2016 Marty Forscher Fellowship award, New York
2015 Swiss Photo Academy, Swiss Photographer of the Year
2015 Swiss Press Photo, 3rd Place International
2013 World Press Photo, 3rd place in General News single
2013 Picture of the Year International, Award of Excellence, General News
2013 Swiss Press Photo, 1st place, International
2013 Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards, Special recognition
2012 Pictures of the Year International Awards, 1st Place
2012 Pictures of the Year International Awards, Honorable Mention
2010 Days in Japan International Photojournalism Awards, 3rd Place
2009 Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award presented at the Arles Photo Festival
2009 Sony World Photography Awards, 2nd place, Current Affairs
2009 Winner PDN 30 under 30, Photo District News Magazine
2008 Selected Canada Winner Fast Forward 2008, Magenta Foundation
2008 Pictures of the Year International, Winner and Award of Excellence, ‘Magazine News Picture Story’,
2008 Photo District News Magazine, Photo Annual Winner
2007 College Photographer of the Year Runner-Up and 1st Place International
Picture Story; 62nd College Photographer of the Year Award
2007 Ian Parry Scholarship (England) Finalist, Honorable Mention
2007 Magenta Foundation, Selected Canada Winner Fast Forward 2007
2007 Photo District News Magazine, Photo Annual Winner
2006 61st College Photographer of the Year Award, 1st Place International Picture Story
Grants
2015 Pulitzer Center for Untold Stories
2010 World Press Photo, Joop Swart Masterclass
2010 Magnum Foundation, Emergency Fund
2010 Pulitzer Center for Untold Stories