Prior to photography, Don worked as an architect for Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has also received a Governor’s General Gold medal for Architecture while working in Canada.

Don has exhibited widely and has had his work shown during the Voies Off Festval at Rencontres des Arles, France. His work won the Grand Prize for the 2007 PHODAR Photography Biennial in Bulgaria. He has completed assignments for such international publications as: Business Week, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, The London Times, Maclean’s, The New York Times, Newsweek, Conde Nast Portfolio, Rolling Stone, Stern, The Sunday Telegraph, Time and the NGO’s Medecins sans Frontieres and War Child. Don is represented by the VII Network.

His Guggenheim Fellowship is allowing him to continue work on a book about life in Russia. It’s about the curse of power, and the wounds it inflicts on those who don’t have it. It’s the 18th Century with jets flying overhead. His first book, ‘Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl’, will be released in Spring 2008.