She served as the assistant to the artistic director of the Comédie-Française for six years before moving to New York in the 1980s. Sancton taught theatrical costume design at Sarah Lawrence College and worked with top interior decorators, including Parish-Hadley. Sancton’s work has appeared in such publications as Vanity Fair, Time magazine, and Cultural Vistas. After years of photographing the people of New Orleans, Sancton decided to photograph the birds in Audubon Park and City Park and along the Mississippi River. Born in France, Sancton now lives in New Orleans.