[1] Her work has been published in The New York Times, Paris Match, The New Yorker, Le Monde Magazine and Newsweek.
[2][3][4][5] In 2003, Kurzen moved to Israel, where she covered as a freelancer journalist the conflicts emanating from the Gaza Strip, Iraq and Lebanon.
In South Africa, where she is based, she explores the social challenges of the post-apartheid society, producing Next of Kin, The Boers Last Stand and Amaqabane, about the lives of anti-apartheid veterans.
[10] In 2011, she won a Pulitzer Center grant, which allowed her to produce a work on Nigeria, A Nation Lost to Gods..[11] The photographs are presented to Visa pour l'Image and the photographer is nominated for the Visa d'Or 2012[12][13] After becoming a full member of the NOOR photo agency in 2012, she chose to move to Lagos, where she continued her coverage of Africa and Nigeria.
In 2015, her investigative work led to the exhibition Shine Ur Eye, in collaboration with Robin Maddock and Cristina de Middel.