[2] She immigrated to the United States in 1953, where she opened her first portrait studio on Tulane Street in Princeton, New Jersey.
[3][4] Her photographs of Princeton's famous locals and visitors quickly gained her recognition across the country.
Since then [she] devoted a good part of [her] life to documenting the lives and works of men and women of different minorities, both here and abroad.
She is quoted saying that she stopped inside a store selling native goods, asked who had created a hand-woven basket and was appalled when the owner couldn't tell her.
[5] She used an unobtrusive hand-held Rollei camera to seek out "British Columbia's native artists in their own places, met them informally and recorded their rediscovery of their old skills".