Delano received Alfred Eisenstaedt (Eisie) Award administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and presented by Life Magazine, for work done in China. His work has received the Award of Excellence three times from Communication Arts Photography Annual for work done in China, West Africa and monograph book publishing. He has been cited with awards in the PDN Photography Annual four times for work done in China, Tibet, and monograph book publishing. “Jambeyang Holy Mountain, Tibet” took the 2002 Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Photography Competition, Banff Centre for Mtn. Cult. and Nat’l Geographic Society. Delano’s 2003 Three Gorges and 2004 Shenzhen, China projects have been cited with Picture of the Year International awards.

His monograph book, Empire: Impressions from China (Five Continents Editions) was awarded in the 2005 PDN Photography Annual and received the 2005 Award of Excellence from Communication Arts. The Empire: Impressions from China series was the first one-person show of photography ever at the La Triennale di Milano Art Museum, Palazzo dell’Arte, Milano, Italy in October/November 2005 and showed at Leica Galleries in Germany and Prague as well. Delano’s Japan Mangaland was cited with the Leica Camera’s Oskar Barnack Award, Honorable Mention for 2006 has been shown at Leica Galleries in Solms and Frankfurt, Germany, Yours Gallery, Poland and at the Rencontres d’Arles. His reportage has hung at the 2006 and 2007 Noorderlicht Photofestival, in the Netherlands, and Japan Mangaland and China: Growing Pains were featured at the Angkor Photo Festival in Siem Reap, Cambodia in 2006. Taming the Yellow Dragon: Desertification in China and Burma 2007 were shown at Angkor in 2007. His work has been included in two National Geographic Books, Himalaya (2006) and Inside China (2007).

His second monograph book, I Viaggi di Tiziano Terzani (Vallardi / Longanesi) will be released in the spring of 2008. His work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Books, GEO, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Time Asia, Internazionale, Le Monde 2 and others.