She was the recipient of a World Press Award in 2015, and selected other awards include the LensCulture Grand Prize for Visual Storytelling, PX3 First Prize for Portraiture, and the PDN Annual’s Project Award. Her first book, “Diagram of the Heart,” about Muslim women and romance novels in Northern Nigeria, was chosen as one of the New York Times Magazine’s best photo books of the year and received recognition in POYi’s photobook of the year contest. She is also an Adjunct Professor at The New School in New York.