In der Schweiz aufgewachsen. Kantonsschule Wettingen, Lehrerdiplom 1979. Seit 1984 in New York ansässig. Gründerin des Grafikbüros TransImage 1989. 2002 Master of Fine Art an der Columbia University. Lehrtätigkeit in Japan und Amerika. Projekte: «Delta», «Hasta siempre» (Kuba), «Since That Day», «Kamagasaki» (Taglöhner und Obdachlose in Osaka), «Tohuku – After the water receded», «Haiku» sowie Projekte in China, Brasilien, Burma/Myanmar. Silberauszeichnung Prix de la Photographie Paris 2011, Auszeichnung PDN Photo Annual 2011, Silberauszeichnung Slow Exposures, Concord, Georgia, 2011.
Individual publications
«New Delta Rising», University of Mississippi Press, Jackson USA 2012.
Solo exhibitions
(Auswahl) Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York 2010 («Latent»); The Center for Fine Photography, Fort Collins USA 2011; Fine Art Museum, Zhengzhou 2011; Wiljax Gallery, Cleveland USA 2012 («New Delta Rising»); Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York 2012 («The Mississippi Delta»); Courthouse, Clarksdale 2012 («Southern Espressions»); Leica Store Gallery, New York 2013 («The Mississippi Delta»); The Cassidy Bayou Gallery, Sumner USA 2013 («The Delta»); The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach USA 2014 («The Mississippi Delta»); Leica Soho Store Gallery, New York 2014 («A Retrospective»); Vermont Center For Photography, Brattleboro USA 2016 («Cuba: Hasta Siempre»); Nikon Plaza, Sendai, Miyagi J 2016 («Since That Day»); Samurai House and Iwate Bank Exhibitions, Morioka, Iwate J 2016 («Since That Day»).
Group exhibitions
(Auswahl) Doma Gallery, Charlotte USA 2012 («Dante and the Delta); Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York 2012 («Voices from Japan: Despair and Hope from Disaster»); Castell Photography Gallery, Asheville USA 2014 («Next: New Photographic Visions); Tipton St. Gallery, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City USA 2015 («Behind the Lens: Women Photographers on Appalachia and the South»); Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester 2015 («The Mississippi Delta»); Soho Photo Gallery, New York 2015 («Aftermath: Portrait of the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Disaster»); Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York 2015 («Cuba, Then and Now»).
Movies
«A Zen Tale», 2000.