Booth also taught at The Maine Photographic Workshop, teaching both beginning and advanced documentary seminars.
In 1989, Booth was appointed Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, and in 1983-84 he was guest Artist-Teacher at the Danforth Museum in Framingham, Ma.
From 1983-1995, Booth received twelve Commendations for Distinguished Teaching, and three nominations for Harvard University’s Joseph P. Levenson Prize for Best Teacher of the Year.
These included Chronic Disease and Custodial Patients - supported in part by a Harvard University Work Completion Grant from 1970-1973; The Salvation Army from 1974-1975; Camping Families in 1976; and Patmos, Greece in 1977.
Booth worked on a series of Cambridge Families Before gentrification, supported by a grant from the Cambridge Arts Council in 1987; of Lowell Folklife, a personal commission from the U.S. Library of Congress to work as photographer with oral historians conducting a contemporary and historical social study of Lowell, Ma., its traces to nineteenth century mill culture, and the recent influx of Southeast Asians fleeing the turmoil in their homelands from 1987-1988; Cambodians in New England, a personal continuation of the Library of Congress commission for The Addison Gallery of American Art’s exhibition Shifting Cultures from 1990-1991; and Families who live in and off of the Dumps of Tijuana from 1991-1998.
Booth also received a Humanitarian Award from The Pine Street Inn, a Boston homeless shelter, for volunteer fund-raising photography.
Booth has six adult children, Douglass (B.1957), Laura (B.1959), Gregory (B.1960), Peter (B.1968), Lucy Nguyen (B.1980), and Evie Lueders-Booth (B.1991).