2024

PH 21 Gallery’s Vision and Expression: the art of photography – Barcelona - Honorable Mention/The Fish #1

BBA Gallery, One Shot Photo Awards/Finalist

2023

PH 21 Gallery’s Light and Shadow —Barcelona-Honorable Mention

Head On Photo Awards - Semifinalist, Portrait

Photolucida's Critical Mass Competition - Top 200 Finalist/Selections from Toxic Tales

5th Annual Honolulu Printmakers Exhibition - Award of Excellence/It’s Like Swimming in the Ocean at Midnight in the Dark #15

Mira Mobile Prize Top 50 - Self-Portrait Selection/Untitled Self Portrait

2022

Lens Culture Black and White Photo Awards - Finalist/The River

Photolucida's Critical Mass Competition - Top 200 Finalist/Selections from The River

2021

Head On Photo Awards - People's Choice Award, Landscape

Head On Photo Awards - Finalist, Landscape

2020

Lens Culture Black and White Awards - Juror’s Pick/Nights As Inexorable As The Sea

Pacific New Media’s Contemporary Photography in Hawaii - Pacific New Media Juror’s Award, Portfolio/O Ka Home O Ka Hale Kahiko series

A Smith Gallery’s The Imperfect Lens - Director’s Award/Rainstorm Outside Akaka Falls and Sophia With Lavalava Cloth in Hilo diptych from O Ka Home O Ka Hale Kahiko series

2019

Photolucida's Critical Mass Competition - Top 200 Finalist/Selections from Nights As Inexorable As The Sea

Pacific New Media’s Contemporary Photography in Hawaii - Kaimuki Camera Award/Night

Texas Photographic Society Alternative Process and Integrated Media Exhibition - Honorable Mention/The Worry And The Wheel from Nights As Inexorable As The Sea diptychs series

2018 

Photolucida's Critical Mass Competition - Top 200 Finalist/Selections from Self-Exposure 

All About Photo Awards - Shortlist Finalist 2018

Rfotofolio Selections 2018 - Nights As Inexorable As The Sea series awarded Top 3 selection for 3D Photo work by juror Collier Brown

Hawaii State Foundation for the Arts and Culture, Art in Public Places - State Recognition Purchase Award/Legally Blind: Fort DeRussy (Waikiki), 2:45pm, 9.10.17

11th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - Overall Competition Winner/Nights as Inexorable as the Sea series: One of three overall competition winners: $1k prize, award; funded exhibition at Barcelona Photo Bienniale.

-Winner, Cell Phone/Nights as Inexorable as the Sea series

-Runner Up, Alternative Process/Nights as Inexorable as the Sea series

-Runner Up, Alternative Process/Self-Exposure series

-Runner Up, Digital Manipulation and Collage/Self-Exposure series

-Runner Up, Digital Manipulation and Collage/Nights as Inexorable as the Sea series

-Runner Up, Open Theme/Nights as Inexorable as the Sea series

-Honorable Mention, Self Portrait/Self Exposure series

Moscow Foto Awards

-Silver, Fine Art Collage/Nights as Inexorable as the Sea series

-Silver, Fine Art Other/Nights as Inexorable as the Sea series

-Silver Fine Art Collage/Self Exposure series (link)

Mira Mobile Prize Top 50

-Self-Portrait/Untitled Self Portrait

-Landscape/Untitled Landscape

2017

Photolucida's Critical Mass Competition - Top 200 Finalist/Selections from Nights as Inexorable as the Sea

9th Contemporary Photography in Hawai‘i Exhibition

-Halekulani Corporation Award/Nights as Inexorable as the Sea

-Hawaii Camera Award/Nights as Inexorable as the Sea

10th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Awards - Finalist, Cell Phone Series/I, Orfeo series

2016

9th Annual Pollux (Photography) Awards

-Finalist, Cell Phone/I,Orfeo series

-Finalist, Fine Art/I, Orfeo series

International Photo Awards - Honorable Mention/Swim series

Hawaii Foundation for the Arts and Culture, Art in Public Places - State Recognition Purchase Award/Socially Speaking: Hat

38th Annual Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce Commitment to Excellence - First Place, 2-D/Socially Speaking: Hat

The Hawaii Photography Show - Second Place/Stroke

5th Annual Mobile Photo Awards

-First Place, The Darkness/They Don't Always Show on the Outside V

-Honorable Mention, Digital Fine Art/That's the Way Some Days Go


-Honorable Mention, Digital Fine Art/Dress Appropriately for the Game Girl


-Honorable Mention, Digital Fine Art/Split-Decision Girl


-Honorable Mention, Self-Portraits/The Housewife I


-Honorable Mention, Self-Portraits/Duck Face Girl

Hawaii Foundation for the Arts and Culture, Art in Public Places

-State Recognition Purchase Award/They Don't Always Show on the Outside V

-State Recognition Purchase Award/Yellow Girl


mDAC Summit Photo Art Exhibition - Juror's Top 10/Fo' Reals?

Florence International Photo Awards - New Era Museum Most Wanted Visionary Award/Nature Girl

2015

4th Annual Mobile Photo Awards

-Honorable Mention – Digital Fine Art/The Girls Visit Cape Cod

-Honorable Mention - Digital Fine Art/Sally Always Felt Like Part of the Furniture...

-Honorable Mention – Self-Portraits/Help! It's Getting Pretty Crowded in Here!

2014

Futuro Presente/Beyond the Conflict - Honorable Mention/They Don't Always Show on the Outside #I

2004

Lightstruck! Film Festival - First Runner Up/That the World Is Round Has Already Been Proven

2003

Digitally Charged Entities - Emerging Artist Award/Innocence in the Time of the Red Sky Nights

2002

Contemporary International - Directorʻs Award/Spring Morning, 1968

2023

Invited Portfolio Reviewer, LACP Summer Exposure Portfolio Reviews

2019

Diffusion X - One of 70 photographers selected for annual showcase

2017

Femme Fotale - Two works selected for inclusion in Femme Fotale Volume V: Resistance, Resilience, and Hope

Punahou School - Kirsch Gallery Invited Artist, Fall

Diffusion IX - One of 70 photographers selected for annual showcase/I, Orfeo series

2016

New Era Museum - Appointed New Era Museum Artist

Lens Culture - Editor's Pick, Fine Art/Self-Exposure series