Seamus Conlan was named the 16th of the "100 most important people in photography" in American Photo magazine decade round up for creating the 4th largest photo agency in the world- WpN. Life Magazine honored him for having taken one of the '100 images that changed the world' 'The Lost Children of Rwanda' after he initiated a photo tracing campaign to reunite children with their parents in Rwanda during the genocide to reunite 21,000 lost children. It later evolved into one of the largest traveling photo exhibitions in history opening at the ICP - International Center of Photography in New York and continuing onto the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles in a joint exhibition with celebrity photographer Mark Seliger. The exhibit continued to travel the world for many years, with coverage in hundreds of major print and broadcast media, and the process is now a standard form of tracing people in developing nations. "The Lost Children of Rwanda" was given a 'Directors Club' award for the use of imagery.