-My "Life Without Lights" multimedia is playing at Slideluck Potshow in Austin on December 3rd. If you're in the area, go see a bunch of great photography and eat a lot of food!

November 2010

-Nov. 16th Life Without Lights was published by Newsweek Japan.

-My photography was recently used by Greg Downey, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Macquarie University in Sydney, on his Neuroanthropology blog. Unlike the usual journalistic way my photos are used, Greg uses them to make some interesting points about vision and compares places like rural Ghana to those with perhaps 'too much' light in the night sky. An interesting read: http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/2010/11/07/life-in-the-dark/.

October 2010

-Oct. 25th - GlobalPost gave me a chance to write briefly about my work for their Full Frame photography feature.

-My "Life Without Lights" multimedia is playing at Slideluck Potshow in Philadelphia on October 23rd. If you're in the area, go see a bunch of great photography and eat a lot of food!

-My "Life Without Lights" multimedia is playing at Slideluck Potshow in San Francisco on October 9th. If you're in the area, go see a bunch of great photography and eat a lot of food!

-Oct. 2nd - My "Life Without Lights" multimedia played at Slideluck Potshow in Ottawa as part of FESTIVALX: Ottawa Photography Festival.

-Oct.1st - I won first prize in the 'body of work' catergory in The British Journal of Photography's International PhotographyAwards with my Life Without Lights series. The prize is an exhibition of the work at The Association of Photographers Gallery in London from November 2nd - 6th.

September 2010

-Sept. 26th - An article about my Life Without Lights series and an interview with me were featured on the Dutch site OneWorld.

July 2010

-July 15th - Life Without Lights was featured on Lens, the photography blog of The New York Times. Click to view - Nights in Ghana, Captured by Flashlight.

-July 8th - An article about my photography and my Peace Corps experience in Ghana was published on Raw File - the photo blog of Wired Magazine. Click to view - Out of the Darkness: Wiring a Desert Village.

-My "Life Without Lights" series has been selected for the nightly screenings at Visa pour l'Image 2010 in Perpignan, Fance. At the moment, it's scheduled to be shown the night of August 30th. I will be in attendance.

June 2010

-My "Life Without Lights" multimedia is playing at Slideluck Potshow in London on June 19th. If you're in the area, go see a bunch of great photography and eat a lot of food!

-June 14th - I joined the VII Mentor Program. For the next two years, photographer John Stanmeyer of the VII Photo Agency will be my mentor, and VII will distribute an archive of my work. View the press release announcing VII's new members here!

-My "Life Without Lights" multimedia is playing at Slideluck Potshow in Stockholm, Sweden on June 5th. If you're in the area, go see a bunch of great photography and eat a lot of food!

-June 2nd - "Gates Foundation CEO: Listening is Key to Success", photo accompanying article, USA Today.

-My "Life Without Lights" multimedia is playing at Slideluck Potshow in Oslo, Norway on June 3rd. If you're in the area, go see a bunch of great photography and eat a lot of food!

May 2010

-My "Life Without Lights" multimedia is playing at Slideluck Potshow in Washington, D.C. on May 21st. If you're in the area, go see a bunch of great photography and eat a lot of food!

-May 13th - "Two Countries, Two Diseases, One Island" multimedia piece published by The Carter Center

-My "Life Without Lights" multimedia is playing at Slideluck Potshow in Dumbo, Brooklyn on May 15th as part of the New York Photo Festival. I will be in attendance.

April 2010

-Apr. 23rd "Life Without Lights" multimedia / video published on MSNBC.com

March 2010

-Mar. 29th Peace Corps is using my photos and voice in a "WebQuest" educational program, teaching students in schools across the USA about Guinea worm disease in Ghana. View a gallery of my pictures and hear my interview here and use the interactive WebQuest program here.

-Mar. 8th Received an award in the Ekvilib Institute's GLOBAL WORLD Photo Contest.

February 2010

- Feb. 15th "In Pictures: Ghana's Market Girls - The Kayayo", photo gallery for BBC News.

December 2009

-Dec. 14th "Philanthropy the Microsoft Way" photos accompanying article in BusinessWeek.

-I've been traveling village to village in northern Ghana with filmmaker Alicia Sully and Peace Corps Volunteer Leader Allison Terry. Using my Kayayo photos and a film on the same topic, we've been engaging communities in a discussion on urban migration and HIV/AIDS. Click to view a video of the Kayayo Multimedia Tour.

November 2009

-Nov. 19th "Jimmy Carter on Eliminating Malaria", photos accompanying an interview, VanityFair.com

-Nov. 18th "Guatemala's Fight Against Onchocerciasis" audio slideshow published on The Carter Center website

October 2009

-Oct. 28th "Traveling with Ghana's Kayayo Girls" multimedia slideshow published on Time.com

-Awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2009 Lens Culture International Exposure Awards

September 2009

-Sept. 26th "Ghana's Kayayo girls do heavy lifting" published on GlobalPost.

-Sept. 21st Finalist for the Open Society Institute’s Documentary Photography Project Distribution Grant 2009.

-Sept. 17th "Ghana's Kayayo: Making the Most of Poverty" published on the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting website. This story was completed with a travel grant from the Pulitzer Center. View my project blog here or project page here.

August 2009

-Aug. 9th "People Making a Difference: Mohammed Salifu" published in The Christian Science Monitor

June 2009

-June 29 Invited to participate in the 2009 Eddie Adams Workshop / Barnstorm XXII, taking place in October.

-Participating in the group exhibition Woodstock: The After Party at Triennale Bovisa gallery in Milan, Italy, June 26th - September 20th.

April 2009

-April 24 featured on the photo blog Verve Photo: A New Breed of Documentary Photographers

February 2009

-Awarded a grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to continue documenting Ghana's Kayayo, a class of thousands of young girls who migrate from Ghana's barren north to find work in southern cities. I will be working on this project throughout March and April. View project page or blog posts.

-Feb. 19 "A desert party near Timbuktu" multimedia slideshow and feature story published in GlobalPost

-Feb. 18 "Music Festival in Mali" multimedia slideshow published in TIME

-Feb. 6 "Road to Progress in Sierra Leone" photo gallery on United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization website

-Feb. 3 "Afishetu's Journey: From barefoot schoolgirl to community leader" multimedia slideshow on Camfed International website

January 2009

-Jan. 31 “Festival Au Desert” multimedia slideshow published in The National Magazine

-Jan. 31 “Sounds from the Sahara” feature story published in The National Magazine

Previous Publications

-December 5, 2008, "Yeresesamu! A president’s daughter runs for a seat in Ghana’s Parliament”, photo gallery, The Christian Science Monitor

-December 5, 2008, “In Ghana, a political neophyte, with a household name, campaigns”, feature story, The Christian Science Monitor

-September 26, 2008, “Killing the Worm”, photos, GOOD Magazine

-January 25, 2008, “Fighting the Sourge of the Guinea Worm”, photo gallery, TIME

-January 25, 2008, “It Takes a Village to Fight a Plague”, feature story, TIME

-October 4, 2007, “Waiting for the Lights”, multimedia slideshow, The Christian Science Monitor

-October 4, 2007, “Life without lights in a Ghanaian village”, feature story, The Christian Science Monitor

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