He has completed assignments for the PEW Charitable Trusts, Comcast, and Corbis and was a staff photojournalist for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1993 to 2008 where he covered a wide range of international, national and regional assignments. He has photographed stories in Somalia, Sierra Leone, India and the Niger Delta, and covered the post-9/11 conflict in the Middle East. He has received national awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, the National Headliners Award, the Knight Ridder Excellence Awards for his work in Central Asia and Pictures of the Year.