Awards:
- 2010 Winner of the Pro Grant of the "Festival de la Mer" ("Sea Festival") for his Nauru project, to be shot in Nov/Dec 2010, in collaboration with Geo Magazine; large outdoor exhibition to take place in France in April/May 2011
- 2009 Winner of Mountain Culture at the Mountain Culture and Environment Photography competition of the Banff Center
- 2009 Honorable Mention, Editorial Photographic Series, New York Photo Festival
- 2009 Marty Forscher Fellowship Fund for Humanitarian Photography, awarded by PDN
- 2009 "Excellence in Photography" award from the Society of Publishers in Asia (Sopa)
- 2009 Selected in American Photography Book
- 2005 PATA award, gold award winner
- 2002 Cover and selected as part of the PDN "30 under 30" award
- 2002 Winner for best Landscape at the Banff Mountain Photography Competition, Canada
Exhibition/Screenings:
- "An Ethereal World", exhibition at the Singapore Art Festival, November 2010
- "An Ethereal World", solo exhibition at Picture This Gallery in Hong Kong, May/June 2010
- Exhibited as part of the French May Art festival in Hong Kong, May/June 2010
- "Forgotten on the Roof of the World", 2010 official selection at MountainFilm festival in Telluride, Colorado, USA
- "Forgotten on the Roof of the World", 3 months outdoor exhibition of large prints at the 7th edition of the People and Nature photo festival in la Gacilly, France, 2009 (Festival "Peuple et Nature")
- "Forgotten on the Roof of the world", Fovea exhibition, New York, June 2009
- "Pamir in whispers", BOA exhibition space, solo exhibition, Munich, June/July 2007
- Screened in 2006 ("Letters to the Pamir") and 2009 (Forgotten") at the Visa Pour L'Image, Photojournalism festival, Perpignan, France
- " Chinese tourist say 'Cheese' ", solo exhibition at the Foreign Correspondent Club, Hong Kong, November 2004
- "Mongolia is a space", solo exhibition, New York, June 2000
Lectures:
- Royal Geographical Society, "The High Pamirs: the Roof of the World", slideshow presentation and talk, Hong Kong, June 2010
- Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival, "Letters to the Pamir", slideshow presentation and talk, Canada, February 2008
- The Asia Society, "Letters to the Pamir: Postmen on the Roof of the World", slideshow presentation and talk. Hong Kong, October 2006
- Le Grand Bivouac Mountain Festival, "Wakhan, the Pamir Postman", slideshow presentation and talk, Albertville, French Alps, Octobre 2006
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