[1] Her father ran a portrait studio from the family home and she and her brother both assisted him in his darkroom.
[1][2] She worked as a photojournalist for Time and Life and, in 1955 accepted an assignment from Sports Illustrated, traveling to Jamaica to shoot the test series between Australia and the West Indies at Sabina Park.
[3] To support herself, she accepted jobs for advertisements and tourism promotion and introduced school photography packages to the country, but her passion was portraiture.
[1] In 1964, two years after its founding, she joined the National Dance Theatre Company as official photographer, a position she retained until her retirement in 1992.
[1][4] Her photographs of the dancers were published in two books, Roots and Rhythms (1969) and Dance Jamaica: Renewal and Continuity (1985).