Diane Pierce has used the medium of photography as her most expressive tool. She studied in the Arts as an undergraduate student at San Francisco State University and did graduate studies in Photography at Mills College, Oakland, CA. She has a thorough background in traditional and digital skills as well as alternative photographic processes. Her work is in the collections of MOMA, San Francisco, The MFA, Houston, The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Mills College Art Museum, and has quietly exhibited over the past twenty-five years. The book Pencil Paper Scissors Light was published in 2021 and Paper Constructs in 2024, both by Datz Press.