At the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties, she worked as a photographer and journalist (she graduated from Charles University's Faculty of Journalism). She belonged to a group of outstanding young Czech photographers devoted mostly to photography focused on reportage and document. She exhibited in Czechoslovakia as well as abroad. While working as a journalist, she reviewed applied art and architecture.
In 1985, she immigrated to the United States, where she lived for twenty years. In New York, she worked as freelance photographer for prestigious museums and galleries (e.g. the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Museum of Art and Design, etc.) and has tens of art photographic publications on her account. In her own artwork, she concentrated on art photography and fine art projects that experiment with the use of photographic image. She has exhibited in photographic and fine art galleries in New York as well as other parts of the US. Following her return to the Czech Republic, she has settled down in the town Rožmitál pod Třemšínem. Presently, she works on a project about the landscape of the Brdy region, which had a strong effect on her in confrontation with her earlier experiences. Among other things, she also works as the head of the Prague House of Photography.
She works with photography and different kinds of material such as glass, plexi, fiberglass, plaster, etc. creating collages, reliefs and three-dimensional objects. She uses photographic images as individual structural elements of a new changed reality. That reality is sometimes the sum or an overlay of different views, other times their confrontation. Every single photograph is a part of an abstract plan or an element of a newly created form. The presence of photography ensures a certain externality of the recording and brings the authenticity to the picture. The fact that the photographs are then shifted into another mediated plane or even become a part of another object, points to the relativity of our own perception, its distinctiveness, its emotional and imaginative alteration and to a subjectivity of our experience, which allows the transformation of external reality.
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