 She attended St. Rose's High School in Georgetown, Guyana, and returned to the UK for her university education in 1977 (her family relocated to Saint Lucia shortly afterwards).She studied visual communications, specializing in Photography in her final year, and subsequently earning a master's degree in Photographic Studies at the University of Derby.She joined Format, the women's photographic agency conceived by Maggie Murray and Val Wilmer, and was also involved in establishing the first Black British photographic association, Autograph ABP, together with Monika Baker, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Armet Francis.