EDUCATION 1989   Bachelor of Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, School of Journalism and Mass Communications SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2006 Uncomfortable Silence, The Darkroom: New Orleans' Center for Photographic Arts, New Orleans LA New Orleans: Ins and Outs, Jenkins/Connelly Gallery in New Orleans LA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 The Big Show, The Darkroom: New Orleans Center for Photographic Arts, New Orleans LA 2007 Identity: Contemporary Photographic Portraiture, New Orleans Photo Alliance, juried by Deborah Luster The Red Show, Juried exhibition at The Darkroom: New Orleans Center for Photographic Arts, juried by Richard Sexton, New Orleans LA 2006 Caught in the Crossfire, Control Arms, Oxfam and Amnesty International. Shown in nine cities worldwide including the Bargehouse in London, UK and the United Nations headquarters in New York, NY Katrina Exposed, A Community of Photographs, curated by Steven Maklansky, The New Orleans Museum of Art 2004-2005 Is Everybody Comfortable? Curator for the Market Photography Workshop and the Women in Arts Festival, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2004. Travelled to Maputo, Mozambique, September 2004 and Cape Town, South Africa for the Month of Photography Biennale, March 2005. 2003 The Brett Kebble Art Awards, the Cape Town Convention Center, South Africa 2002 African Nights, The Castle, Cape Town, South Africa African Nights, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa African Nights, XII Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografia, biennale in Buenos Aires, Argentina A Day in the Life of Africa, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 2001 Lines of Sight, Centre de Musée National du Mali, Bamako, for the Recontres de la Photographie Africaine 1999 Lines of Sight: Perspectives on South African Photography, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, July - October 1999 AWARDS 2007   PhotoNOLA Portfolio Review. New Orleans 2004   Southern African Gender and Media Award for Photojournalism. 2003   The Brett Kebble Art Awards. Finalist. Cape Town, South Africa 1998   The Alfred Eisendstaedt Award for Magazine Photography. Finalist 1995   Louisiana Press Association. Second Place 1994   Louisiana Press Association. First Place and Second Place 1993   Pictures of the Year. Award of Excellence for feature picture story          Southern Photographer of the Year. Second place for feature picture story          Louisiana Press Association. First Place and Second Place 1992   Louisiana Press Association. Second Place 1989   Minnesota Newspapers Association. First Place feature picture story COLLECTIONS New Orleans Museum of Art Louisiana State Museum Collections BOOKS Women by Women: 50 Years of Women's Photography in South Africa. Edited by Robin Comley, George Hallett and Neo Nstoma. WITS University Press, Johannesburg South Africa, October 2006. Katrina Exposed: A Photographic Reckoning. Edited by Steven Maklansky and published by the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, May 2006. Johannesburg Ð One City, Colliding Worlds. Essays by Lindsay Bremner Commissioned to illustrate the published essays of Lindsay Bremner, winner of the Bessie Head Non-fiction Fellowship Award. The book was published by STE Publishers in Johannesburg, South Africa 2004. Moving In Time, Life in a Democratic South Africa. Edited by George Hallett. One of fifty South African photographers selected to contribute to a survey of photography covering the first ten years of democracy in South Africa. 2004. A Day in the Life of Africa. One of 100 internationally selected photojournalists to take part in a book/exhibition project to raise money for HIV/Aids in Africa. I was commissioned to photograph daily life in Swaziland 2002.