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)