He founded the New Orleans Photo Alliance in 2006 to help rebuild the photography community in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His work in the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston as well as many private collections. His commercial work has been widely published in many museum catalogs and is the co-author of the book “Creoles of New Orleans:Gens de Couleur” , which contains his photographs of the neighborhood and people of the historic 7th Ward of New Orleans. In 1988, he received an Artist Fellowship in Media from the Louisiana Division of the Arts. He will be exhibiting 2 portraits of Clarence John Laughlin.