Their second collaboration brought Steinberger to the Afghan refugee camps outside Peshawar, Pakistan, where she documented the production of Boetti's embroidered work.
[4] In September 2011 RAM Publications & Distribution released a book of photographs taken there with essays in English and Italian entitled, Boetti by Afghan People: Peshawar, Pakistan, 1990.
[8] Steinberger's documentary films include the insightful portrait of the modern traveler, Holi-days, which was shot in Jerusalem, Florence and Las Vegas, and aired on the Sundance Channel.
In No Circus, her book of photographs, tented houses became sculptural abstractions and enigmatic monuments inserted into suburban Los Angeles.
“Everyone has looked twice at these big top monoliths,” artist Miranda July points out, “but only Steinberger has looked again and again, transforming termite tents in to public art with her gorgeous and obsessive eye.” In 2019, Steinberger co-chaired the search committee that selected Anne Ellegood as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.