SELECTED AWARDS

2022 First Place, Open Lens XII, Gallery 7, Lockport, IL, A Misty Memory

2022 Honorable Mention, Purchase Award, Art Barn School of Art 28th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, Valparaiso, IN, Sunlit Sanctuary Heron

2022 Third Place, Single Image, Eighth Annual Street Photography Around the World Exhibition, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA: Heartbreak on Auction Day

2021 Hazel Taberner English Memorial Award, South Shore Arts 78th Annual Salon Show, Munster, IN Spiritual Cleansing

2021 Merit Award, Art Barn School of Art 27th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, Valparaiso, IN, A Misty Memory

2021 Photojournalism Print of the Year, Photographic Society of America, Heartbreak on Auction Day

2021 Print of the Month, Monochrome, Chicago Area Camera Club Association, The Happy Garbage Picker

2021 Photographic Society of America, Photojournalism, Heartbreak on Auction Day

2021 Photographic Society of America, Photojournalism, Patty Cake Patty Cake

2021 Photographic Society of America, Nature, Blue Heron Ballet

2020 Photographic Society of America, Photojournalism Print of the Year, Teeth Clenching Roper

2020 Photographic Society of America Council Challenge, monochrome, A Dark History

2019 Mary Fedderson Memorial Award, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN, Lacandon Boy with Toy

2019 Portrait Print of the Year, Chicago Area Camera Club Association, Lacandon Boy with Toy

2019 Print of the Month, Chicago Area Camera Club Association, Lacandon Boy with Toy

2019 Portrait Print of the Month, Chicago Area Camera Club Association, Beary Cute

2018 75th Annual Salon Show, South Shore Arts, Honorable Mention, Munster, IN, A Dark History

2018 Nature Print of the Year, Chicago Area Camera Club Association, Blue Heron Ballet

2018 Portrait Print of the Year, Chicago Area Camera Club Association, Someone’s Grandmother

2018 Print of the Month Small Monochrome, Chicago Area Camera Club Association, Lacandon Boy with Toy

2017 Best of Show, Photography, Annual Art Comp, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL, A Dark History

2017 Second Place, Open Lens VIII, Gallery 7, Joliet, IL, Haunting Seas

2017 Nature Print of the Year, Chicago Area Camera Clubs Association, Hi Ho Silver

2016 Best of Show, Photography, Annual Art Comp, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL, Foggy River Sunrise

2016 Nature Print of the Year, Chicago Area Camera Clubs Association, Mommy and Me

2015 Nature Print of the Year, Chicago Area Camera Clubs Association, Hungry Merlin

2015 12th Annual Heartland Regional Photography Exhibition, Plymouth, IN

2015 “The View As We See It” Chesterton Art Center, Chesterton, IN, The Unveiling

2014 11th Annual Heartland Regional Photography Exhibition, Plymouth, IN,

COLLECTIONS

Permanent: Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN: Lacandon Boy with Toy; State of Indiana, Montgomery County Government Center, Canopy of Leaves

Private: Chicago, IL; Lansing, IL; Chesterton, Dune Acres, IN; Leesburg IN; St. Joseph, MI; Port Aransas, TX

PUBLICATIONS

Photographic Society of America (PSA) Journal