1995 Charles Pratt Memorial Fellowship, USA
1994 Arts Council Publications Award, London
1992 Arts Council Publications Award, London
1989 Fellow in Photography, Museum of Photography, Bradford
1988 Eugene Smith Memorial Fellowship, USA
1987 Young Photographers Award, ICP, New York
1987 Channel 4/Arts Council Video Bursary
1987 Hayward Gallery Commission, London
1986 GLC Publications Award, London
1986 Arts Council Publications Award
1985 GLAA Visual Arts Award, London

2011 Whitechapel Gallery, London
2010 Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (touring)
2009 Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, Netherlands (touring)
2009 MoMA, New York (touring)
2009 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2009 Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2008 A shimmer of possibility, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2008 A shimmer of possibility, Les Filles du Calvaires, Paris
2008 A shimmer of possibility, Crown Gallery, Brussels
2008 A shimmer of possibility, La Fabrica, Madrid
2007 A shimmer of possibility, Anthony Reynolds Gallery
2006 “American Night”, Les Filles du Calvaires, Paris
2004 “American Night”, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2003 “American Night”, PS1 MOMA, New York
2000 Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York
2000 “End of an Age”, Scalo, New York
1998 Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
1997 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1996 “Hypermetropia”, Tate Gallery, London
1995 “Empty Heaven”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg

2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Photographer ́s Gallery London, HQ of Deutsche Börse Frankfurt, Deutsche Börse Berlin (touring)
2008 No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967-1987; From the British Council and the Arts Council Collection, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, touring to UK venues and The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
2007 How We Are: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London
2007 Photo-London, London, Great Britain
2007 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
2006 "GESCHICHTEN, GESCHICHTE", Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2006 "Spurensuche: Vergessen und Erinnern in der Gegenwartskunst", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2006 "Click Double Click - Das dokumentarische Moment in der Kunst”, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2005 "Arbeit", Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2004 "Cruel and Tender", Museum Ludwig, Cologne / Tate Modern, London
2004 "About Face", Hayward Gallery, London
2004 "Where are we", Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2002 49th Venice Biennale, Venice