AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

– Drone Awards – Highly Commended – Cambodia Burning Film – 2020
– Earth Photo Awards – Shortlist – Cambodia Burning Film – 2020
– Pictures of the Year – Award of Excellence – Uncaged Film – 2020
– Leica Oskar Barnack Award – Nominee – 2020
– Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant. Cambodia Burning. 2020
– BarTur Photo Award – Shortlist – 2020
– British Photography Awards – Shortlist – 2020
– Environmental Photographer of the Year – Changing Environments Prize – 2019
– Drone Awards – Finalist – 2019
– Resilience Science Journalism Fellowship, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. 2019
– Environmental Photographer of the Year (Atkins CIWEM ) Shortlist – 2017
– Ocean Science Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). 2017
– Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant. Exotic Pets in China – 2017
– Environmental Photographer of the Year (Atkins CIWEM ) Shortlist – 2016
– Made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) for work documenting environmental issues in Asia. 2014.
– Environmental Film of the Year – ‘The Toxic Price of Leather’. Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year. 2014
– Photocrati Fund Honorable Mention. 2013
– Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant. Pollution in India. 2013
– Photocrati Fund Honorable Mention. 2012
– Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant. Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau. 2012
– Prix Pictet Nominee. 2012
– First Place for Multimedia in the UK Press Photographer’s Year Awards. 2011
– Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant – China’s Fragile Forests. 2011
– Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant – North Korea’s Addicting Export: Crystal Meth – 2011
– Pictures of the Year International Emerging Vision Finalist – 2011
– Shortlisted at the Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalists in Multimedia Category. 2010
– World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass Nominee – 2010
– Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant – China’s Threatened Wetlands. 2010
– Honorable mention at the Earth Journalism Awards at COP15. 2009
– United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Photo Contest – Finalist – 2009
– Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant – Desertification in China. 2009
– World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass Nominee – 2007
– Selected to undertake a 1-year paid internship at the photojournalism agency Magnum Photos. 2004-2005
– Ian Parry Scholarship for Young Photojournalists – Shortlist. 2003

SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK & INTERVIEWS (2017-2020)

– The Eye of Photography/loeil de la photographie – In Conversation with Sean Gallagher – Oct, 2020
– Turning the Tide on the Relentless Destruction of Cambodia’s Forests – Yale Environment 360 – August, 2020
– Cambodia’s biggest lake is running dry – National Geographic – August, 2020
– Photojournalism Now – In Conversation with Alison Steiven-Taylor – Aug, 2020
– Young Scientist’s Journal Interview – Cambodia Burning – May, 2020
– Documenting Climate Change Podcast – Interview – May, 2020
– Photography of China – Photographer Profile – April, 2020
– Getting creative to fund and engage audiences on under-reported stories – World Press Photo Witness – April, 2020
– Photography and Climate Change Awareness – Allaboutphoto.com – March, 2020
– Bohai Bay: the Chinese region disappearing inch by inch – The Guardian – Feb, 2020
– Environmental photographer of the year 2019 winners – The Guardian – Sept, 2019
– In pictures: Environmental Photographer of the Year 2019 – The Times – Sept, 2019
– Stunning images are named winners of Environmental Photographer of the Year – The Daily Mail – Sept, 2019
– Rising Tides – Tuvalu: Beneath the Rising Tide – Zeke Magazine – Sept 2019
– Seas rise, hope sinks: Tuvalu’s vanishing islands – in pictures – The Guardian – May 2019
– Rising sea levels are threatening this Pacific paradise – CNN Online – May 2019
– ‘One day we’ll disappear’: Tuvalu’s sinking islands – The Guardian – May 2019
– Sea, sand but no sunscreen: tiny Tuvalu desperate for skin protection – The Guardian – May 2019
– Can the world quench China’s bottomless thirst for milk? – The Guardian – March, 2019
– Stopping the Meltdown – Dif Media – March, 2019
– How to Win Grants from Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting – PDN Online – Feb, 2019
– “Uncaged“ Film: Saving China’s Songbird’s From the Poachers’ Nets – The Guardian – January, 2019
– Winning Pulitzer Center Travel Grants – PDN Magazine – April 2018
– Best Instagram accounts to follow this Earth Day – iMore – April, 2018
– Instagram Feed Shows Everyday Extinction – The Guardian – February, 2018
– Pulitzer Center Annual Report – February, 2018
– ‘Toxic Planet: The Global Health Crisis’ – Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting eBook – January 2018
– Everyday Extinction: An Instagram Campaign Raising Awareness of Species Extinction – National Geographic – Dec 2017
– Pictures Reveal Hardship in the World’s Fastest Sinking City – National Geographic – December, 2017
– 2017: A Year in Photos – Pulitzer Center – December, 2017
– Everyday Extinction: Q&A with Sean Gallagher – Voices for Biodiversity – Nov 2017
– This Instagram account is putting the spotlight on animal extinction – Washington Post – Oct 2017
– Everyday Extinction — Connecting Audiences to a Biodiversity Crisis – Everyday Projects – Oct 2017