He received his MFA at Columbia College and has more than twenty years experience as a commercial photographer as well as more than a dozen years teaching photography at the university level. He has participated in more than one hundred juried, group and solo exhibitions, and is currently a Visiting Scholar with the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won numerous awards in peer-reviewed exhibitions, was awarded the Gary B. Fritz Imagemaker Award for current research at the National Conference of the Society of Photographic Educators (SPE) in 2009, and in 2010 Professor Wascovich was awarded the Provost Award for Research and Creative Activity from Texas A&M University/Commerce.