Born in Belgium, where she first studied economics and business. She moved to New York in 1996 where she completed the photojournalism and documentary program at the International Center of Photography in 1998 . She received the Marty Forscher Grant for Emerging Photographer and the Circuit Vlaanderen from the Charleroi Museum of Photography (Belgium). Her images have been widely exhibited and are included in numerous collections. She has been working with humanitarian organizations in Guatemala, Colombia, Palestine.
She has been working on a project in Chile for the last 5 years.

She teaches at ICP and is a visiting artist at Parsons School of Design.