awards
2012
- Honorable Mention, Juror's Commendation Winner for L'Enfant-Femme, Fellowship 12 International Photography Competition, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Juror: Julie Saul, owner/director Julie Saul Gallery, NY.
2011
- Honorable Mention, 2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies international competition.
- Finalist, The European Publishers Award for Photography 2011, juried by 5 European publishers: Actes Sud (France), Apeiron (Greece), Dewi Lewis Publishing (Great Britain), Kehrer Verlag (Germany) and Peliti Associati (Italy).
- First Prize Winner, Off the Wall Juried Exhibition, curated by Ms. Susan L. Stoops, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Worcester Art Museum.
- First Prize Winner, 2nd edition Julia Cameron Award, Category: Portrait, People and Figure.
- Recipient of an Artist Fellowship, MCC Grant in Photography 2011, Massachusetts Cultural Council.
- Winner of the Legacy Award, 17th Juried Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, curated by Debra Klomp Ching, owner of Klompching Gallery, NY. (Juror's statement)
- Winner in the Personal category of PDN Magazine Photo Annual 2011. Her work is featured in the June edition of PDN.
- Special Mention of the Jury in Portraits and People 2011, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, April 2011
- "A Girl and her Room" won the People's Choice Award for the finest photography in New England in 2010. The awards are organized by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research.
2010
- 2010 Artist Level Runners-Up: Photography Contest, Forward Thinking Museum. Jurors: Willis E. Hartshorn, Director International Center of Photography; Karen Sinsheimer, Curator, Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Kai McBride, Photography Professor Columbia University
- Honorable Mention: UNICEF Photo of the Year Award
- Top 50 Winner for A Girl and Her Room, Photolucida Critical Mass 2010
- Honorable Mention: Women in Photography International, Faces 2010: Teens
- Honorable Mention: Lens Culture International, Exposure Awards, October 2010
- CENTER Project Competition Award: Honorable Mention, Jurors: Tina Kukielski, Senior Curatorial Assistant, Whitney Museum of American Art; Nion McEvoy, CEO, Chronicle Books; Markus Seewald, Photo Editor, GEO magazine
- CENTER Center's Choice Award: Curator's Choice: Honorable Mention, Juror: Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art
- 3rd Prize Winner, International Art Exhibition of the Lebanese Diaspora, Beirut Lebanon, sponsored by Notre-Dame University Louaize (interview)
- Second Place Winner for Aftermath of War in Lebanon, Px3 Aftermath, Prix de la Photographie Paris (press release | award certificate)
- Invitation to Exhibit at I-95 Triennial Invitational Exhibition, University of Maine Museum of Art
- Invitation to Exhibit at the International Art of the Lebanese Diaspora, Beirut Exhibition Center, Notre Dame University
2009
- First Place: Best Photo Essay the 2009 Ippies Award: "Refugees: Aftermath of War in Lebanon" published in Nueva Luz #13, by the New York Community Media Alliance (award certificate)
- Best of Show: The Photo Review, Juror Ms. Lesley Martin, Aperture, 2009 (pdf version)
- Top 20 Distinguished Finalists, MyArtSpace 2009 Miami Competition
- Honorable Mention: Lens Culture: International Exposure Awards 2009
- Top 50 Winner: Photolucida Critical Mass 2009
- Honorable Mention, CENTER, Singular Image Award, The Editor's Choice
- Invitation to the Nooderlicht Photofestival Exhibition in The Netherlands, "The Human Condition"
- Invitation to Exhibit Ordinary Lives at the 14th International St.Petersburg PhotoFair Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg Russia
2008
- Selected one of 4 finalists for the 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston with an accompanying exhibition at the ICA
- Top 50 Winner Photolucida Critical Mass 2008
- Selected one of the Top 100 Distinguished Women Photographers by Women in Photography International,
- Honorable Mention, Berenice Abbott Prize for an Emerging Photographer, Juror Ms. Carol McCusker
- Honorable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Human Condition Competition: "Life After War, Lebanon 2006", "Women of Islam", "Forgotten People"
2007
- First Place, Women in Photography International
- Purchase Prize: Danforth Museum of Art, New England Photographers Biennial 2007
- Portfolio Spotlight Award, B&W Magazine, Portfolio Contest 2007
- Top 50 Winner, Photolucida Critical Mass 2007
- Nomination to the 2008 Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers
- Recipient of the 2007 Artist Grant in Photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council
- Winning images in Women in Photojournalism International, NPPA
- Invitation to the Nooderlicht Photofestival 2007: "Acts of Faith" in The Netherlands
- Nomination to the Henri Cartier Bresson Award by Ms. Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany, March 2007
- Nomination to participate in the biennial exhibition "Women to Watch 2007", by the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C.
- Best of Show, "Interaction" Juried Exhibit at The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO, chosen by director Mr. Larry Padgett
- Honorable Mention, Photography Now 2007, Juror Ms: Alison D. Nordstrom
- Honorable Mention, Women in Photography International, June 2007
- Invitation to Moving Walls International, Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation,
- Invitation to the touring exhibit "Transformations" sponsored by the Texas Photographic Society, juried by Michelle Dunn
- Invitation to the 25th Anniversary Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, by Ms. Anne Wilkes Tucker
2006
- Second Place Prize, Juried National Competition, Texas Photographic Society, Inc, Juror: Ms. Kathy Vargas
- Merit Award, The Single Image, B&W Magazine, November 2006
- Honorable Mention, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Fellowship Competition, Juror: Mr. Rod Slemmons
- Honorable Mention, Portraits and People Category, The Golden Light Awards
- Honorable Mention, Social Document Category, The Golden Light Awards
- Winning images, Women in Photography International: "Turning Silver"
- Excellence Award: Black & White Magazine, Portfolio Contest
- Invitation to FotoGrafia Festival in Rome: "The Landscapes of War", Slideshow and Catalog
- Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Center for Photography, the Singular Image, Juror: Ms. Miriam Romais
- Honorable Mention, the Berenice Abbott Prize for an Emerging Photographer
2005
- Honorable Mention, Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship Competition, Juror: Ms. Leslie Martin from Aperture
- First place, National Juried Exhibition, The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Washington D.C.
- First place, Photojournalism category, "Beauty", Women In Photography International, Juror: Ms. Carol McCusker, Curator of Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts
- Honorable Mention, Photojournalism category, "Beauty", Women in Photography International, Juror: Ms. Charlie Holland, Director of Photography, Getty Images
2004
- Third place, Photojournalism category, Black and White Spider Award
- Honorable Mention, People category, Black and White Spider Award
- Top Photographer, Maine Photographic Workshops, Golden Light Awards