Career
She is best known for her dramatic black and white images that illustrate her dreams. She began making photographs as a way of facing and working through nightmares and night terrors that have haunted her since childhood. She is also known for making her own cameras and lenses, initially from ruins of toy camera bodies, and now from found objects and assorted other materials and using them to particular dramatic effects that best represent her vision of her dreams.
Burnstine has written for many notable photography publications, including a monthly column for B&West Magazine United Kingdom.
was also selected as a Best Book of 2011 by PhotoEye Magazine.
"", Burnstine"s latest work, began after the death of her father, when her nightmares, which had been the impetus for returned. The work is shot from a different, higher perspective than her earlier work, reflecting the vision of her father, looking down upon her, but retains her signature dark and dramatic, blurred effects.
