CV

 
GRANTS & AWARDS

2020 Martin Parr Foundation Bursary

2020 Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund

2019 Burtynsky Grant, Winner

2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Finalist

2019 Images Vevey Book Award, Finalist

2018 Hyères 33e Festival de Mode et de Photographie, France, Finalist

2015 Gasworks International Fellowship

2015 Canada Council of the Arts Travel Grant

2013 First book award: Paris photo/Aperture foundation, Paris, Shortlisted

2013 Dummy award: Fotobook festival, Kassel, Shortlisted

2013 Book design award: Antalis review, Shortlisted

2009 Pol Roger New Image Competition, Winner

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020   Keeper of the Hearth, Houston Centre For Photography, USA

2019   Kaleidoscope, Somerset House, London

2019   209 Women, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

2018   209 Women, Palace of Westminster, London

2018   Futures Talent Pool, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam

2018   Hyères 33e Festival de Mode, de Photographie et D’Accessoire de Mode, France

2018   Snapshot to WeChat: A Migration of Identity, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

2017   Burning with pleasure #3, Photofusion, London

2017   You and Me, Landskrona foto festival, Landskrona, Sweden

2016   Roads Less Traveled, TIFF festival, Warsaw

2015   Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photo Festival, Athens

2014   Photography as Installation, Oxford house, London

2014   Rolling snowball 5, CEAC-DIS, Djupivogur, Iceland

2014   Photobookshow Malmö, Galleri Vasli Souza, Malmö

2013   Reading photographs, Camec, La Spezia, Italy

2013   E book show, Southhampton

2011   On water, Canal museum, London

2009   Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Rochelle school, London

2009   Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse, Manchester

2009   Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed, The Photographer’s Gallery, London

 

BOOKS

2019   China Dream published Skinnerboox, hardback, 112 pages plus booklet

2016   Self/Portrait, self-published, hardback, 36 pages plus 15 gatefolds

2012   Speaking of scars, self-published, hardback, 68 pages

 
COMMISSIONS

2018   208 Women, Palace of Westminster, London

2018   Liverpool 2018 commission, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

2012  Olympics portrait commission, The Photographer’s Gallery, London

 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Parliamentary Art Collection, Palace of Westminster

Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo

National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University

 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2015   Organhaus, Chongqing, China

2015   Dimension Art Centre, Chongqing, China

2013   Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China

 

EDUCATION

2008   MA Photography, London College of Communication, London, England

2000   BA Communication Design, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada

 

TALKS, ONLINE & EVENTS

2020   Artist Talk, Contact Photo Festival, Toronto
2020   In Conversation with Kalpesh Lathigra, British Journal of Photography
2019   Visiting Lecturer, Belfast School of Art
2019   New Yorker Photo, Instagram Takeover
2019   The Photographers Gallery, Instagram Takeover
2019   Cheese by Konbini, One Minute Portrait
2018   Artists talk, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
2017   Artists talk, Sino Flux, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2017   With Caravan Projects: Polycopies (FR), Zum Festival (BR), Feira Tijuana (BR), Friends w/ Books (DE), Cultural Traffic (UK), Missread (DE) Multiple Art Days (FR)
2016   With Caravan Projects: C/O Book Days (DE), Polycopies (FR)