I am an award winning photographer based in San Francisco, California. I have had exhibitions throughout America. Two books of my work have been published and I have a third coming. I am not tied to any one kind of portraiture but rather I am a social observer and instigator of positive interactions.

My first public art project was in 1998 called, "Naming the Homeless." I photographed 30 people where they slept at night and again after they had been made over. Interviews with them were written on the mats that framed the pictures. The images hung in the nave of Grace Cathedral at Christmastime when 50,000 people visited and saw the exhibition. The purpose was to get the subjects jobs. Eight of the subjects succeeded in securing employment after their pictures were seen.

Another public project was projecting images I had made with the actress Tilda Swinton in 2006 onto the north and south faces of City Hall - four stories high and a block wide. The people who walk there at night are primarily going to classical music concerts, the ballet, the opera and the homeless who camp out. These groups, normally fearful of one another, mingled in wonder at the images and spoke together about them. They were conversing about art.

From 2011 - 2013 I had a film I made called, "Genevieve Goes Boating" about a little girl who sails a boat in a storm that played continuously in the National Park, Fort Mason, where 2.5 million people visit each year. It became a destination for families with small children who said they were empowered by Genevieve.

Last spring my second book was published. I had worked on it since 1999. I photographed dancers at San Francisco Ballet. The book, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2015, was called, "Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers." It has been written about from Elle to Time Magazine. The images have appeared all over the world. The essence of the project is that the women became better dancers after they had children. The point of the pictures is to demonstrate the joy these women took in raising children while they worked. Most women in the world who have children must work to support them and these pictures are a way of celebrating that effort.