Biography
Sloan Scholar for the Humanities at the University of Michigan; received MFA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Received various Prizes, Honorable Mentions and Prize Nominations in global competitions, detailed in the next section of this Profile, including the IPA. Photos selected for numerous juried exhibitions or issues of, among others, the Center for Photographic Art (CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (CO), PhotoPlace Gallery (VT), Praxis Gallery (MN), Black Box Gallery (OR), The Photo Review (PA); F-Stop Magazine (Chicago), the New Britain Museum of American Art (CT).
Awards
In the International Photography Awards, in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2015, total of 1 Juror Top 5 Pick, 2 Honorable Mentions, and 9 Official Selections, in total 7 categories. In London International Creative Competition Awards, in 2025 and 2024, in SHOOT (Video-Photo), 1 Short-Listed project, 2 Official Selection projects. In the International COLOR (Photography) Awards (Beverly Hills, CA), in 2021-2025, 1 First Place, 6 Honorable Mentions, and 42 Prize Nominations, in total 14 categories. In the reFocus Color Photography Awards, in 2025, 2024 and 2023, an Honorable Mention and 3 Prize Nominations in total 3 categories. In the 2023 reFocus World Photo Annual Awards, 2 Prize Nominations in in total 2 categories. In the international Fine Art Photography Awards (London, ENG), in 2025, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2015, total of 3 Honorable Mentions and 10 Prize Nominations in total 8 categories. In the Tokyo International Foto Awards in 2025, 3 Honorable Mentions in total 3 categories. In the 2025 Architecture MasterPrize (Photography) Awards, 3 Honorable Mentions in total 3 categories. In the 2023 Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards, Silver Prizes in Architecture and Nature. Photos selected for the 2019 International Juried Exhibition of the Center for Photographic Art (Carmel, CA) and the 2020 CPA Members Juried Exhibition; Honorable Mention in "The Found Object" exhibition of Praxis Gallery (MN); 3 Juror's Selections and 4 Honorable Mentions in exhibitions of New York Center for Photographic Art (NYC); Director's Honorable Mention in "Weather" exhibition of PhotoPlace Gallery (VT) in 2021; Director's Honorable Mention in "Habitat" exhibition of A. Smith Gallery (TX); Honorable Mention in 2013 annual IMAGES juried exhibition of Shoreline Arts Alliance (CT); Merit Award in Seascape from COLOR Magazine, 2010; and First Honorable Mention in Art of the Northeast exhibition of the Housatonic Museum of Art (CT)
