He attended Auburn University and is currently a graduate student at Harvard University. He is a recent finalist in Leica’s International Otto Bismarck award, and his forthcoming book, Highway of Hands, documenting an isolated rural community being established by freed slaves and the conditions they faced in the Black Belt region of Alabama, will published in the spring of 2013. His work concerning racial conflict and the multiple police shootings of young unarmed black men in south Alabama has most recently been published by Truthout.org, and he is currently completing a documentary film of these tragedies. He has worked infrequently as a miner and cattle rancher to support his education and photographic pursuits.