My inspiration is the force of music as expressed through bodies in movement, in emotions, in interactions among the crowd and with the energies circulating around the environment.
I grew up immersed in the high energy music of my hometown Detroit. This loud, physical, emotional music took hold and became a part of me.
In 1977 I graduated from art school and collaborated on projects with my friends Destroy All Monsters. Co-founders Cary Loren and Niagara formed a new band with avant-garde musicians Benjamin and Larry Miller. Destroy All Monsters became the emblematic Detroit punk band.
A rock-and-art punk underground developed. In this creative community, I formed my personal vision: active, graphic, intimate, joyful and trash… My early photographs have been exhibited around the world, notably at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival in 2010.
In this 21st century I have been pursuing personal fine art work in the extensive underground music scenes of Paris – the environment that continues to inspire me, where music’s energies circulate and merge with the crowd.
Since 2015 I have also been participating in the interdisciplinary French academic study PIND (punk is not dead) as a witness-insider of punk scenes, doing visual research and conferences.
Selected solo exhibitions
- Galerie Nivet-Carzon, parcours parisienne de la photographie, Paris
- Galerie Stardust, « Because the Night » Paris
- « Punk is Alive » exhibition commissioned by CNRS PIND, Paris & Tarbes
- Hard Rock Café, Detroit, inaugural exhibition
Selected group exhibitions
- “Mythic Chaos: 50 Years of Destroy All Monsters” Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan 2025-26. Curated by Cary Loren and Kat Goffnet.
- « I am a Cliché » Rencontres d’Arles 2010, with catalog. Curated by Emma Lavigne
- « Detroit After Dark » Detroit Institute of Arts 2016, with catalog. Curated by Nancy Watson Barr
- « Hungry For Death, Destroy All Monsters » London, Paris, Greece… Curated by Cary Loren
- « Punk House » MOCAD Detroit, with catalog. Curated by Cary Loren
- « Punk is Coming » MOCA Connecticut. Curated by Liz Leggett and Roberta Bayley
- « 50 years of Rock and Roll Through the Eyes of Women » Photodays Festival, Rovinj Croatia. Curated by Gail Buckland
Collections
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Patti Smith Archive, Mills College, Berkeley
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Library
Books
- Hysteric Fifteen, Hysteric Glamour Art and Books, Tokyo, 2006
- End of the Night portfolio, Chez Higgins, Paris, 2006
Publications
- « Vers une méthodologie visuelle » with Natacha Giafferi-Dombre, essay in Underground! Chroniques de recherche en terres punk, Editions Riveneuve, Paris, 2019