She was born in Caracas, Venezuela to a Sicilian father and an American mother. It was through her mother, an amateur photographer, that she became entranced by photography. One of her early memories was viewing her mother’s black and white slides projected on the living room wall of her adventures living in Europe and Turkey. A few years later, her mother gave her a Kodak Instamatic camera, and she set off documenting the world around her. She has been making pictures ever since.