 Lixenberg pursues long-term projects with a primary focus on individuals and communities on the margins of society, such as "Jeffersonville, Indiana," a collection of landscapes and portraits of the small town’s homeless population photographed over a seven-year period, and "The Last Days of Shishmaref", which portrays an Inupiaq community on an eroding island of the coast of Alaska.She photographed Prince and Whitney Houston in an honest and introspective way.All her work is done with a large format camera.