Selected Awards
2023: Pictures of the Year International (POYi 80) Photography Book of the Year – Award of Excellence [BR]OTHER
2023: LensCulture Portrait Awards 2023 – Finalist
2022: The Eiger Foundation African Photobook of the Year Award – Finalist [BR]OTHER
2022: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Finalist- Feature Photographs
2022: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Finalist- Sports Photographs
2020: World Press Photo: Portraits Singles, 3rd Prize
2019: Pictures of the Year International (POYi 77) – 1st Place: Newspaper Photographer of the Year, Local
2019: Pictures of the Year International (POYi 77) – Award of Excellence: Sports Portrait
2019: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Winner- Feature Photographs
2019: SAB Environmental Media Environmentalist of the Year Awards: Winner for Photography
2018: Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards – Gauteng Region Photography Winner
2017: Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards – National Photography Winner
2017: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Winner- News Photographs
2017: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Winner- Sports Photographs
2017: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Finalist- Multi Platform Story Telling
2016: Pictures of the Year International (POYi 74) – 2nd Place: Newspaper Photographer of the Year
2016: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Winner- Sports Photographs
2015: Pictures of the Year International (POYi 73) – 3rd Place: Newspaper Photographer of the Year
2015: Pictures of the Year International (POYi 73) – 2nd Place: Issue Reporting Picture Story, Newspaper
2015: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Winner- Features Photographs
2015: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Finalist – News Photographs
2014: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Finalist – Sports Photographs
2014: The Media Magazine top 40 under 40 in the media industry
2013: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Winner – News Photographs
2013: Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents – Finalist
2012: Pictures of the Year International (POYi 70) – 1st Place: News Picture Story
2012: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Finalist – News Photographs
2012: Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Finalist – Feature Photographs
2010: Mondi Shanduka Journalism Awards: Winner- Sports Photographs
2010: Mondi Shanduka Journalism Awards: Finalist- Feature Photographs
2010: Sony Profoto Awards: Multiple Category Winner
2009: Mail & Gaurdian 300 Young South Africans
2009: Mondi Shanduka Journalism Awards: Winner- News Photographs
2009: Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards – National Photography Winner
2008: Ruth First Fellowship, Wits University
2008: Mondi Shanduka Journalism Awards: Finalist- Feature Photographs
2008: Fuji Film Southern Africa Photography Awards-Judges Recognition
2007: Mondi Shanduka Journalism Awards: Winner- News Photographs
2007: Mondi Shanduka Journalism Awards: Commended- News Photographs
2006: Mondi Shanduka Journalism Awards: Commended- Feature Photographs
Selected Exhibitions and Presentations
Helsinki Photo Festival, Finland – Courage. 2023
“A Call to the Ancestors” documenting Lincoln Memorial Park, in Miami, forming part of a group exhibition. September 2023
‘Marikana, 10 Years Through the Lens’, a commemorative group exhibition, held at The Kalashnikovv Gallery, in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. 16 August 2022
‘STREIK’ (‘Marikana Massacre’). Forming part of a group exhibition held at the Hamburg Museum of Work, coinciding with The Triennial of Photography, Hamburg, Germany 2022(May 24, 2022)
[BR]OTHER (Book), screened at Visa pour l’image, Perpignan, France, 2021
World Press Photo Master Class with Alon Skuy. PDP 2020, Market Photo Workshop
‘Killing the Other’ Alon Skuy and James Oatway. A commemorative exhibition, 10 years of Xenophobia, Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre. 2018
‘Blue’ Satellite Museum, Basel Art Fair, Kroma Art Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida USA, Dec 2014
Pictures of the Year International Exhibition at the Museum of Photographs; San Diego, USA. May-Sept 2013
‘Xenophobia – Never again’. Solo exhibition. The Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg, S Africa, May – August 2009
‘Lady in Pink’. Prospekt/Johannesburg. Group exhibition. Gl Holtegaard, Amsterdam, Holland, 2 May – 26 July 2009
Xenophobic attacks and aftermath. Slideshow presentation. Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and District Six Museum, Cape Town. Book Launch, November 2008
‘Inside the Bridge’. Ruth First Memorial Lecture and Solo exhibition, Atlas Studios/University of the Witwatersrand, August 2008
Publications: Selected
MARiKANA 2012/2022. A commemorative book documenting the ‘Marikana Massacre, and beyond, coinciding with the 10year anniversary, since the watershed moment in South Africa’s history. MAKER, Johannesburg, South Africa , 2022
[BR]OTHER. Oatway & Skuy A visual record of xenophobia in South Africa over a 12 year period. Jacana Press, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020
Go Home Or Die Here : violence, xenophobia and the reinvention of difference in South Africa / edited by Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe and Eric Worby. Wits University Press, 2008