Shaw's work has been shown at Leeds Met Gallery, Goethe Institute in Dresden, Germany and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Shaw is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society[1][2] and is a member of the society's 'Multimedia and Narrative Distinction Panel' alongside Andy Golding (University of Westminster) and Daniel Meadows among others.

[3] He is chair of the board of directors of Birmingham Open Media,[4] and a trustee of The Photographers' Gallery;[5] and sits on the advisory board for Photomediations Machine.

[7] He sits on the editorial board of Media Practice & Education,[8] and was a guest editor of a "special disrupted issue" of the Journal of Media Practice in May 2018.

[9] He is the international member of the academic board of the Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia,[10] and a visiting professor at Bournemouth University's Centre for Excellence in Media Practice.