His extensive body of work has been recognized and featured in exhibitions and museums internationally, as well as The New Yorker,[1] The New York Times,[2] NewsWeek and on Channel 4, a British public-service television broadcaster.

He graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in English and completed additional study towards a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from Columbia College as well as the Universidad del Pais Vasco in San Sebastian, Spain.

engaged in two large-scale documentary projects—one focusing on his adopted community on Chicago's South Side and the other documenting the experience of undocumented Latin Americans coming to and living in the United States.

South Side is a body of work encompassing photography, film, found ephemera, archival material and mixed-media art evoking a uniquely American time and place.

[3] Shadow Lives USA follows the migrant trail from Central America, through Mexico and the United States in an effort to tell the stories of the men and women who make up the largest transnational migration in world history.