Soares’s work has been exhibited in both group and solo shows at venues including Museo d’art contemporena Roma, the O. Winston Link Museum, Longwood Arts Gallery, and the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative as part of the Look3 Festival of the Photograph. His work is in the permanent collections of the Sloane Art Library at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Nelson Atkins-Museum of Art, and the Indie Photobook Library, among others. In 2013 he was nominated for PDN 30 and the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, and the National Press Photographers Association and the Puffin Foundation awarded him grants to begin work on a project about disappearing mining communities in Western Pennsylvania in 2012.