Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Open Society Institute Fellowship, Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, Alexia Foundation Grant, Getty Images Grant, International Photo Reporter Grant, Canon Female Photojournalist Award, three World Press Photo Awards, and W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanitarian Photography. Exhibited and published internationally including The New York Times, Le Monde, The Atlantic, Granta, and The New Yorker. Padilla has lectured at the San Francisco Art Institute and led workshops at Rencontres d’Arles in France. Family Love, Padilla’s recent book, follows a family for 21 years — an intimate story of poverty, AIDS and social issues.