Occasionally appearing alongside her subjects in photographs, she unabashedly embraces full participation, understanding that such presence ultimately affects the images she creates. Apart from using the camera as a tool to make images, she also treats it as a conduit to gain access and intimacy with those documented. Over the last few years, her archive of compelling work has grown into a number of different series, producing three monographs, that, as she states, revolve around “exploring history, representation and otherness within the documentary tradition.”