2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Residency
2018 National Academy of Design Fellow
2017 The Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship Award
2016 Artist in Residence, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
2015 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography, The Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
2015 The 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, The Gibbes Museum of Art, South Carolina
2015 Michael P. Smith Memorial Award for Documentary Photography, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
2014 The Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA Residency Programme, Dublin, Ireland
2014 S.J. Weiler Foundation Award
2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award
2013 Monroe Fellows Research Grant, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
2011 Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant Recipient
2007 Sweet Arts Grant Recipient, The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002 Anonymous Was A Woman Award Recipient
2002 The John Gutmann Photography Fellowship, The San Francisco Foundation
2001 The Baum: An Emerging American Photographer Award, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
2001 Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize, (in collaboration with C.D. Wright), The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
2000 The Louisiana Division of the Arts, Artist Fellowship Award
2000 The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Publication Grant