News
September 2009
I have been shortlisted for the Guardian Student Photographer of the Year award. The winner will be announced in the Guardian Student Media Awards ceremony on November 25 in London
June 2009
Swansea BA Photojournalism degree show SLIDESHOW (Foto8: June 8, 2009)
I will be graduating from the BA (Hons) Photojournalism course in Swansea Metropolitan University in July, and I am exhibiting at Free Range in London's Brick Lane, between June 11-15, as part of the Swansea degree show. A related online portfolio can be viewed on the Free Range site here.
Five images from my degree show series can also be found on Source magazine's Graduate Photography Online 2009.
May 2009
I'm one of the Nominees for the New York Photo Awards 2009 in Student Social Documentary Essay category for a 15 image series of my Lebanon work.
March 2009
I am one of the finalists in PDN Annual Student Series category. The winner will be announced in May.
I am also one of the finalists for the Redux/Foundry Workshop Scholarship
February 2009
One of my Sierra Leone images (See: Portraits No 4) will be exhibited at the Association of Photographers gallery in London, February 18-28, as one of the best entries to the Ctrl.Alt.Shift photography competition organised by the Vice Magazine (UK) and Christian Aid in November 2008.
January 2009
I am one of the shortlisted for the Sir Leslie Joseph Young Artist Award, given to a young artist with connections to Wales. The winner will be announced in February.
December 2008
I gave a talk about my Lebanon photos at Rikhardinkatu Library in Helsinki on December 30 at a meeting organised by the Finnish Psychologists for Social Responsibility.
One of my Sierra Leone images will be published in the December 2008 issue of Vice Magazine (UK) as one of the best entries to the CtrlAltShift Competition organised by the magazine and Christian Aid.
November 2008
Upcoming : I will be in Washington D.C. for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, January 16-22, 2009.
I attended Photojournalism Portfolio Workshop, taught by Guardian picture editor Roger Tooth and photographers Eamonn McCabe, Gideon Mendel, and David Levene, in London on November 26. The Guardian is Britain’s third biggest daily newspaper based on circulation.
October 2008
Some of my images from Sierra Leone can be seen in 3/08 issue of Finnish Refugee Council’s magazine Pakolainen (’Refugee’). The magazine can also be viewed online via Issuu or as a pdf. Pakolainen is published in Finnish.
I received an honourable mention in the International Photography Awards 2008, in the Feature Story category for my Diamond Dreams story about mining in Sierra Leone.
September 2008
One of the diamond mining images from Mamboma, Sierra Leone, was licensed to Canadian TV series The Border for use in an upcoming season two episode.
August 2008
I will leave for Lebanon on August 17th to work on a project about the Palestinian refugee camps in the country.
July 2008
My photograph ‘Gbindi Girl’ was selected to the Foto8 Summer Show held in HOST Gallery in London between July 23 - August 31 2008.
Shortlisted for the 2008 World Nomads Travel Photography Scholarship.
Some of my work from Sierra Leone was showcased by the MJR collective (US) in their blog along with an interview.
June 2008
I attended Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Mexico City and was taught by Stephanie Sinclair (VII Network), Andrea Bruce (Washington Post), Shaul Schwarz (Reportage/Getty), and Benjamin Lowy (VII Network).
Work for a Swansea-based artist Fern Thomas, whose final MA piece included two photographs taken by me.
May 2008
My photographs of Awst and Walther performances in Swansea and Essen were being used in a German art e-zine The Utopian.
April 2008
Welsh-German artists Manon Awst and Benjamin Walther published a catalogue of their performances in Swansea (UK) and Essen (Germany). Majority of the photographs were taken by me.
March 2008
I spent four weeks in Sierra Leone documenting the foreign aid projects by the Finnish Refugee Council.