AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS
2019 Woodstock Center for Photography Artist-in-Residence
2018 Peter S. Reed Foundation Award
2018 American Photography 34
2018 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2017 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2016 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2015 Critical Mass Top 50
2015 American Photography 31
2014 American Photography 30
2013 Nominee Prix Pictet
2012 Forward Thinking Museum, New York, NY
2011 Honorable Mention, Center Project Competition, Santa Fe, NM
2010 Honorable Mention, Project Competition, Center, Santa Fe,NM
2010 Photo District News Annual
2010 American Photography 26
2009 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
2009 Finalist, GrandPrize, Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland
2008 American Photography 24
2008 Critical Mass Top 50, Portland, OR
2005 White House News Photographers' Association Project Grant
2004 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, The Palm Beach Post
1998 Nominee, Pulitzer Prize, The New York Times
SELECTED PRESS
"Dissecting Identities with Photographer Susana Raab," Photo Chronicles
Martinez, Freddy, "Using Photography to Enter YourPast." Photo Whoa Blog.
McKenna,William, “The Photographer that Photographs Your Loves and Fears”, BBC News,February 6, 2015
Jenkins, Mark, "In the Galleries," TheWashington Post, November 14, 2014
Phil Hutinet, East City Art, "The Invisible Wall Opens Window into Life East of the River."
New Works # 14 by Andy Adams, Nueva Luz, 2011
Beem, Edgar Allen,“Personal Work: Junk Food Nation,” Photo District News, March, 2009
Estrin, James, “Showcase: More than a Slice,” The NewYork Times Lens Blog, July 15, 2009
LECTURES & PANELS
Halsey Institute for Art, Charleston, SC
Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Fotoweek, DC
American University Museum at the Katzen, Washington, DC
SALT Institute, Portland, Maine
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
EN FOCO, The Bronx, NY
Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA
Maryland Institute and College of Art, Baltimore, MD
American Society of Picture Professionals, Washington, DC
The Society for Photographic Education National Conference,Dallas, TX
A Photo A Day Conference, St. Petersburg, FL
NOVA Community College Documentary Photography Lecture Series,Woodbridge, VA
Corcoran College of Art, Washington, DC
White House News Photographers Association, Washington, DC
Society for Photographic Education Mid-Atlantic Fall Convention,University of PA, Philadelphia, PA
Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
INTERVIEWS
SELECTED GROUP/SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Windgate Museum of Art (opening Fall 2020) Hendrix College, Conway, AR
2021 Southbound: Photographs about the New South, LSU Museum of Art Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2020 Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
2018 Southbound: Photographs about the New South, Halsey Institute of Art, Charleston, SC.
2017 Performing the Border, American University Art Museum at the Katzen, WDC
2016 WPOW: 10 Years, National Geographic Museum, WDC
2016 Unbound, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 Hickock Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts, DC
2016 East of the River (solo), Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC
2016 The Invisible Wall, The Fence, Boston, MA; Brooklyn,NY; Atlanta, GA; Houston, TX; Albuquerque, NM
2015 The Invisible Wall (solo), Spagnuolo Gallery, GeorgetownUniversity, Washington, DC
2015 Select, Washington Project for the Arts, Artisphere,Arlington, VA
2014 Photo/Diary, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington,DC
2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, King Juan Carlos I of SpainCenter, NY, NY
2014 Select 2014, WPA Project for the Arts, Washington,DC
2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago,IL
2013 FotoNovela, III Forum on Latin American Photography,Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013 Selections from Time Machine #2: Spectacle: Consumed,Belfast Photo Festival, BBC Screen
2013 Cotidiano USA, Embassy of Spain, Washington, DC
2013 Converging Cultures: Works by Latino Artists, UMW Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA
2012 Consumed (solo), SALT Gallery, Portland, ME
2012 Cholita, Kaunas Photofestival, Latvia
2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI
2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, FotoDC, Washington, DC
2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and EverythingElse, Newspace, Portland, OR
2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and EverythingElse, Rayko Photo,San Francisco, CA
2011 A Sense of Place, Georgia College & StateUniversity, Milledgeville, GA
2011 Corridor, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
2011 EnFoco Fellowship Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Brooklyn,NY
2010 American Vernacular (solo), Irvine Contemporary, Washington,DC
2010 Etc., Pingyao Photofestival, Pingyao, China
2010 Super-America (solo), Kunstlicht Gallery, Shanghai,China
2009 Consumed, Shots, Look3 Festival of Photography,Charlottesville, VA
2002 Eyes of History, Corcoran Museum of Art, WDC
PUBLICATIONS & CATALOGS
Inedible Truth, Australian Photojournalist
FotoNovela, ITAU Cultural, Brazil
Nueva Luz 2014, En Foco
Converging Cultures: Works by Latino Artists, Ridderhoff MartinGallery
Cotidiano US, Spanish Cultural Institute/RM Editorial
100 Washington DC Artists, Shiffer Publishing
Corridor, Art Museum of the Americas
Collect.Give.Org Catalog
GUP027
GUP021, pps.92-103
New Works #14, En Foco
A Better Time, Garda de Cartiere
The Pursuit of Happiness, Noorderlicht Photofestival
Migrations, Michael Weise Productions
Conversations1, Nymphoto Books
Insight, The PhotoMedia Center
A Sense of Place, zine, self-published
Rank Strangers, zine, self-published
EDUCATION
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
MA, School of Visual Communications,
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
BA, English Literature