[13][14][15] His first, 2nd Tour Hope I Don't Die, was published by Photolucida as a prize for winning their Critical Mass Book Award.
[6][26][27] After graduation he received a fellowship to live in China for a year and document the consequences of the Three Gorges Dam.
[28] He has covered HIV-positive refugees in South Africa;[3] the Asian tsunami in 2005;[3] humanitarian relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina's effects on New Orleans in 2005[28] and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake,[29] the filming of the first season of TV series Treme on location in New Orleans in 2010;[12] the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010,[9] Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and its aftermath,[11] Nabi Salih and Halamish in the West Bank in 2013[8] and the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict[7] and its aftermath.
With work made between January 2006 and December 2008,[30] this "is a young photojournalist’s firsthand experience: the wars’ effects on him, on the soldiers and on the countries involved.
"[1] The 2012 W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography provided $30,000 to work on his second book,[30] Disco Night Sept. 11, which "chronicles the lives of the soldiers he has met in the field and back home.