Herzog combines some of the very early photographic darkroom processes with contemporary and her own techniques to achieve her desired effects.

[2] Herzog's work ranges from classical documentary to the experimental and conceptual and has been published and reviewed in The New Yorker,[3] The New York Times,[4] The Los Angeles Times,[5] The Paris Review,[6] Harper’s Magazine,[7] El País,[8] El Mundo[9] The Believer,[10] The British Journal of Photography,[11] and Cabinet,[12] among others.

They have collaborated on several projects including a book of stills from the film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans which was published by Rizzoli in 2009.

In 2016, Herzog's complex video/audio installation Last Whispers: Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and a Falling Tree, in which she collaborated with composer and director Marco Capalbo and sound designer Mark Mangini, premiered at the British Museum in the Living and Dying Gallery adjacent to the Rosetta Stone.

[17] A film and surround-sound experience that incorporates archival recordings of endangered languages, Last Whispers began a world tour in 2019.