Achievements and Awards

  • Encontros da Imagem, Official selection, portfolio review, September 2024

  • Athens Photo Festival, Shortlisted for R_EU_nification, April 2024

  • Revela-T, official selection, May 2024

  • Sony World Photography Awards, Professional Competition, Documentary, Shortlisted for R_EU_nification, March 2023

  • Magenta Foundation, UNSTUCK Grant, Special Mention for R_EU_nification, November 2022.

  • Lucie Foundation Scholarship Program - Emerging - Photo Taken, Winner for R_EU_nification, November 2022.

  • Eddie Adaws Workshop, 2021, Selected

  • American Photography 37 -  Selected for my series R_EU_nification, November 2021

  • Chico Review 2021, Selected, January 2021

  • VII Masterclass 2020 with Maciek Nabrdalik and Stefano de Luigi, April -August 2020

  • The Aftermath Grant, Finalist for Ephemera, December 2019

  • Lucie Foundation Emerging Artists Grant, Shortlisted for Ephemera, July 2019

  • International Photo Awards, One Shot, Honorable Mention, Istanbul, May 2019

  • Pollux - The Photography Gala Awards - Finalist for The South Korean Muslims, March 2018

  • American Photography 34 - Selected for my series The South Korean Muslims, March 2018

  • Athens Photo Festival 2017, Shortlisted for Noir Bangkok

  • FAPA (Fine Art Photography Awards) - Honorable Mention: Postcards from Japan, April 2017

  • PDN Exposure 2016, Honourable Mention, Han - The Dark Side of Korea, September 2016

  • DotArt Urban Photo Awards - Portfolios & Stories - Chosen for my Han project, July 2016

  • DotArt Urban Photo Awards - Street Photography - Chosen for my Istanbul Image, July 2016

  • MIFA (Moscow International Foto Awards) - Honourable Mention: Han - The Dark Side of Korea, June 2016

  • FAPA (Fine Art Photography Awards) - 1st Place -  Street Photography: Han - The Dark Side of Korea, June 2016

  • American Photography 32 - Selected for my Istanbul image, March 2016

  • I Shot It Black and White: Mark of Excellence, January 2016  

  • FAPA (Fine Art Photography Awards) - Street Photography honourable: iTaiwan, August 2015

  • Member of Fotovisura Guild, 2015-2016

  • I Shot It Black and White: Mark of Excellence, January 2015

  • Awarded a spot and a scholarship at the Magnum Days in Provincetown workshop, September 2014

  • International Photo Awards, IPA, Honorable Mention, Faces of Syria

Publications

Exhibitions

  • AKEL Photo Exhibition, Nicosia and Brussels, 2020-2021

  • The Aftermath Grant, Traveling exhibition, 2021 -

  • Photoville 2016, PDN Exposure winners and finalists, NYC 2016

  • Dot Art traveling exhibition of winners and finalists, various venues in Europe.

Clients

  • Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Society Magazine, TAZ, Private Magazine and others