I am a photo documentarist and academic. My work is published and exhibited internationally. I am the recipient of the Agfa/Emma Female Photojournalist of the Year Award, an Alexia Foundation alumna and a Fellow of the Centre for Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) since 2017. In 2021 I was awarded the collaborative Affect and Colonialism Web Lab Fellowship from the Freie Universität Berlin and in 2022 I became a joint Fellow of the Cambridge Visual Culture (CVC) at Cambridge University.
My current research explores the emerging affluent classes in Lusaka, Zambia. My long-term research interests include exploring the changing perception, representation and visual self-governance in Africa.
I was born in Bavaria/Germany in 1968 and I hold a BA and MA from Academy of Applied Arts (FAMU), Prague, Czech Republic. Since 2008 I have been Head of Photography at the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University and I lead the BA and MA courses.