Her book and exhibition Border Country documents the experiences of asylum seekers detained at the UK's Immigration Removal Centres.
"[4] Friend's project The Home Front was nominated in 2012, and again in 2013, for the Prix Pictet, a global award in photography and sustainability.
[citation needed] Standing By, which uses sound & still images, draws us into Friend's parents' 60-year long relationship.
For years, Friend thought that her parents' crossword interactions were funny: how her father barked out the clues in mock-Sergeant Major style and her mother quietly came up with the answers.
As they grew older and frailer, and her mother's Alzheimer's disease became apparent, the daily routine of the crossword, initiated by her father, felt increasingly crucial both as a memory exercise and a ritual where humour, conversation and banter could happen as before.