In 2003, Teller was awarded the Citibank Prize for Photography by the Photographers Gallery, London, and in 2018, he received the Special Presentation Infinity award by the International Center of Photography, New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows at Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris (2006); Dallas Contemporary, Texas (2011); Daelim Museum, Seoul (2011); Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2013); DESTE Foundation, Athens (2014); Bundeskunstalle Bonn (2016); Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2017); Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018), T-10/SKP-S, Beijing (2021). Teller will have a major exhibition at the Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris in December 2023. In 2007 he was asked to represent the Ukraine as one of five artists in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Teller’s photographs have been acquired by numerous international collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris; International Center for Photography, New York and National Portrait Gallery, London. Teller has published over 50 books and was a Professor of Photography at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg from 2014-2019.