• 2018 Certified Professional Photographer, CPP, PPA
• 2018 Hilton Head Monthly Readers' Choice Award 2018 --Bluffton's Favorite Business Photographer
• 2018 PPA Merit Collection "Hiding Behind the Hands of Time", Portrait Category (see below)
• 2017 Hilton Head Monthly Readers' Choice Award 2017 --Bluffton's Favorite Business Photographer
• 2017 SEPPA Merit Image "Eye of Innocence", Portrait Category
• 2017 PPA Merit Collection "Eye of Innocence", Portrait Category (see below)
• 2016 PPA Merit Collection "African Child", Portrait Category (see below)
• 2016 PPA LOAN Collection "Lost Soul", Portrait Category (see below)
• 2016 PPA LOAN Collection "Child of Cristo Rey", Portrait Category (see below)
• 1993 Recipient Eddie Adams Workshop (1/100 students accepted based on portfolio)
• 1993 BFA Professional Photographic Arts & Sciences,  Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
• 1992 Internship at Ganette Rochester Newspapers, Rochester NY
• Press awards

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