He won third prize in the sports stories category in 1998 with images that showed the Silver Gloves boxing competition in Lennea, Kansas.
[6] In 1999 he won third prize in the general news stories category with images that revealed the damage in Nicaragua from Hurricane Mitch.
[6] He won third prize in the general news singles category in 2001 with images of the mass suicide of The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments - a church that murdered hundreds of its cult members after falsely predicting the end of the world in the year 2000.
[8] Also, with Eric Easter and D. Michael Cheers, he co-directed "Songs of my People" which was a photo project that eventually toured as an exhibition and was made into a book, (ISBN 0316109819) published in 1992.
[3][9] According to the NY Times review, "Songs of my People" was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York and the images are notable because they display everyday life in African-American culture instead of the urban problems often seen in mass media.