She first emerged on the scene in 1986 with her famous series The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, a powerful body of work that chronicled the hard-drugs subculture in New York she has been involved with. She is famous for her lush color photography that invites the viewer to scratch under the surface. Her photographs reflect her uncompromised manner and style and portray people and their lives in a candid way. She has been involved in numerous collaborative projects and her work has been a subject of several retrospectives.