Recognized by respected magazines and newspapers, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Catholic Digest, Time and Newsweek, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Parade Magazine, and Paris Match. She began her career as a journalist for CNN in 1985, but found she couldn't loose her first love - still photography. While a freelancer for the Associated Press she decided this would be her full- time occupation. Her passion for documentary work, along with the fact that she had lived in Brazil during her childhood, led her to explore and photograph the Amazon. After traveling to Brazil, and hitchhiking with another female journalist on the back of sugarcane trucks, she found herself in the southeastern basin of the Amazon. While staying at a Catholic mission, she documented the indigenous tribe known as the Xevante.