Born in France, but raised primarily in New York and California, Powers began her advertising career as an art director in a boutique agency. She quickly realised that the images she conceptualised were best achieved by taking the photographs herself. Working within the confines of commercial assignments, Powers soon built a reputation for innovative thinking and artistic techniques that have become her signature.

Three years into her photographic career, Powers travelled to Japan where she worked on assignments for PARCO, SEED, and APEX as well as several fashion magazines and music CD covers. Her work was featured in numerous prestigious books, including Air Powered, Fame, Creativity and various magazines in the US and Japan.

Powers was commissioned to create a poster for the American Film Market, which won her several awards, and has an image in the permanent collection of GeorgeEastmanHouse Museum of Photography in Rochester, NY.

Three years in succession, Powers' work was chosen from thousands of entrants in the annual book publication, American Photography. AdWeek magazine named her one of their "Creative All-Stars".

Powers entered films when Earthworks Films approached her to enhance and restore vintage photographs of Navajo and Hopi tribesmen for the Academy Award winning documentary Broken Rainbow.

She later produced and directed an award-winning short fiction, Havana; a 20-sec commercial for JC Penney One-Day Sale; a 20-sec promotional film for Prince Machiavelli Perfums Storm; a 10-min in-store promotional film for French fashion label Voyou; and a non-fiction documentary Project Pheonix on a blind NASA physicist's work in The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

In 2005, Powers moved to New Zealand, where she's enjoying the Kiwi lifestyle and the thrill of new clients. For New Zealand Tourism she's creating little tales of imagination, or "one-frame-films" suspending the subject and the viewer in a short intermission from frenzied urban life.

Professional Organisations

• USA

  • Advertising Photographers of America
  • National Association of Photoshop Professionals

• NEW ZEALAND

  • Advertising and Illustrative Photographers Association
  • New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers
  • The Photographic Society of New Zealand
  • Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand
  • New Zealand Film & Video Technicians Guild
  • MAC Users of New Zealand