She has taken photographs of the 1981 Springbok tour, the sinking of the Greenpeace ship "The Rainbow Warrior", the protest at Bastion Point, and the 1984 land hikoi. She has also documented the Queen Street riots and outrage at the murder of Teresa Cormack. Her photographs of the women's movement in the 1970s and 1980s featured prominently in the exhibition at Auckland War Memorial Museum, "Are We There Yet?" She says she is attracted to things "that were important".