Her portfolio assembles a variety of pieces from more than sixty countries. Her works celebrate the most delightful of human spirits while also bringing attention to its most worrisome aspects. Cobb has established herself as an artist whose works chronicle the worlds that are shut out from outsiders, and situations that most journalists would cringe at getting into. The photographer has a knack for gaining access to such places and is the first among many to have crossed to China when it was first reopened to the Westerners. Quite remarkably, she is also the first woman to have earned the title of White House Photographer for the Year in 1985.