2017 Artist-in-Residence, New Zero Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar
2016 Winner, PDN “Street Photography 2016
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Art Production Fund/The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
2011 Winner, PDN Photo Annual 2011, Personal Work Category
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2006 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship
Webby Awards Official Honoree/Personal Website Category
2005 Finalist, Santa Fe Prize for Photography, Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation
Grantee, American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS)
1999 J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Award/Sri Lanka and India
1996 Grantee, Asian Cultural Council Residency Program/Vietnam
1993 Fellow, Virginia Center for The Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1992 Artist-in-Residence, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
1986 Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1983 Fellow, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1980 Artist-in-Residence, Light Works, Syracuse, NY
1979 Fellow, Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH