Her work is usually produced in series, and her subjects are often shown facing the camera against a minimal background. After being commissioned by a Dutch newspaper to create a summertime series, this work resulted in her internationally acclaimed Beach Portraits series depicting full-length color photographs of teenagers on the beach. Her large-scale portraits recall 17th-century Dutch painting and are often capturing particular communities of people. Her subjects vary from adolescents and clubbers to soldiers and women who have recently given birth. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2012.