She is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana but spent two years living in Berlin, Germany (1997-98 as a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange student, and 2004-2005 as a Fulbright young journalist grantee). In 2008, she received a master’s in digital photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and as a thesis project, began photographing her neighborhood of Greenpoint and nearby Williamsburg. Since a young age, Kristy has been fascinated with the architecture of her surroundings and how it makes her feel.