[4] Wiedel's books include Irish Tinkers (1976), Looking at Iran (1976), Vulcan's Forge (1979), Dover, a Port in a Storm (1991) and Faces with Voices (1992).
[1] Adams had a great influence on Wiedel's approach to photography, as did Thurston Hopkins who she studied under at the Guildford School of Art.
Her photographs contrasted idyllic scenes of community gardening with images of the police and the National Guard occupying Berkeley which emerged from Wiedel's observational style and were put into sharp relief through her editing.
In 1973 Wiedel spent three weeks living with the Inuit of Pangnirtung on the East coast of Baffin Island in Canada's Northwest Territories.
[11] In 1976 Wiedel was commissioned by the publishers A & C Black (UK) and Lippincott (USA), with support from the National Iranian Oil Company, to produce a children's educational book, Looking at Iran, ISBN 9780397317974.
Instead of rows of uniformly sized photographs, there were sections devoted to different industries, some special lighting and audiovisual material as well as the videotape of the ATV programme.
Her work documents the lives and resistance of the women at the camp, made up of makeshift dwellings alongside the perimeter fence of the base.
Between 2001 and 2005 Wiedel documented the lives of the multicultural community in St Agnes Place, a squatted street in South London.
[31] In 2006 Wiedel co-ordinated and organised a talk, Groundation concert and multiscreen photographic presentation of the London Rastafarian community for the Profile Intermedia 9 conference The Tower of Babel at the Power House, Bremen, Germany.
[33] Throughout her career, she has undertaken freelance commissions and taught in universities and art & design colleges as a part-time visiting lecturer.
Wiedel's exhibition Vulcan's Forge, originally shown at The Photographers' Gallery in London in 1979, returned to the West Midlands in November 2021.
[37] As a result, Birmingham author Andy Conway was reunited with Wiedel who had photographed him as a schoolboy waiting at a factory gate 45 years previously.
[38] In 2024 Wiedel republished her book Vulcans Forge, Industries of the West Midlands 1977-1979, in a large format with Bluecoat Press, incorporating a foreword by photographer Josh Allen.