B efore photography, Lizzie was, for ten years, successively educator, social worker

with disadvantaged populations in the Parisian suburbs, then trainer for adults, teachers and illiterate youth,

then trainer in the teaching of reading.

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She has led internships with different audiences in training of trainers and in direct training, in particular, workers in retraining in the steel industry in Longwy (Lorraine) or around Paris.

Contemplative passionate about photography in front of the photographs of Sebastiao Salgado, Eugene Smith, Dorothee Lange, Walker Evans, Eugène Richards and other humanist photographers, she decided in 1992 to become a photographer and to testify on what she saw too much being ignored and hidden, with in-depth reports on social subjects relating to Human Rights.

She joined Robert Doisneau's Rapho agency in 1994, then Editing agency in 2002.

She is now represented by Polaris Images, New York.

She has been interested in Arab Israelis, Kosovo after the chaos, Illegal immigration in Europe,  Pollution in Silesia, Adolescent obesity, Transexuals, Isolated foreign minors, Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, Teenage mothers ...

For three years, from 1996 to 1998, she has worked on “Is this how women live?”, a photographic reportage on domestic violence in France, for which she has been traveling through the emergency services of hospitals, women's homes, police stations, foster homes, courthouses ... Wherever battered women, victims of domestic violence, find shelter, care, dignity too ...

A second part, “Males en Poing” (Violent spouses) gave the perspective of the perpetrators of violence, the men. The ensemble has been rewarded with numerous prizes such as, among others, the Care International Grand Prix for Humanitarian Report in 1998 or has been finalist in 2001 for the Niepce Prize.

Her photographs illustrated the Amnesty International's worldwide campaign against violence against women in 2006.

She has also worked in 2000 on Infanticide and the selective elimination of little girls in India with "Die and send us your brother ...", in 2004 on early marriages of little girls in Ethiopia with "Such little brides… ”, on women victims of trafficking in Moldova and on sex tourism and the sexual exploitation of minors in Madagascar, then on the trafficking of women in Israel with“ Promised Land, Promised Women… ”in within the framework of the Pierre BOULAT Prize which she received in 2011.

She devoted herself for 8 years, from 1999 to 2007, to a long work on the conditions of detention of the children in the world, "Mineurs en peines" (Minors behind bars). Out of the 60 countries approached, she managed to enter in 69 prisons in 12 countries spread over 4 continents. Poor or rich countries, countries at peace and countries at war, democratic countriesand non-democratic countries. This reportage will obtain several awards, including the Visa d'Or 2007, the Special Jury Prize Days Japan Tokyo, the Top D'or at the Shenyang International Photojournalism Festival and will be a finalist for the Eugene Smith New York Prize in 2008 and others...

The first part of this work, in russian prisons, illustrated Amnesty International's global campaign on the fate of children in detention in Russia as well as the “Horizon, children deprived of liberty” campaign of BICE chaired by Robert BADINTER.

In 2011, she began to work on extremisms, from radical Islamism in Europe to the rise of fascism in Hungary with “Buda… Peste Brune” (Far right in Hungary) or on the Far Right in France and elsewhere…

In 2017, she received the Carmignac Photojournalism Prize and worked on “Le Piège” (The Trap), a work on slavery and trafficking in women in Nepal.

She also collaborates with humanitarian organizations such as Human Rights Watch, Unicef, Terre des Hommes, Plan International, Médecins du Monde, Fondation Abbé Pierre, Acted, Amnesty International, Planète Enfant et Développement, and many others ...