Joanna Lipper's photographs from her series "Women @ Work in Africa" have been published and exhibited internationally. Most recently, her photographs were featured in the exhibition "Chief Nike Davies-Okundaye: The Power of One Woman" at Gallery of African Art (GAFRA) in London. Lipper's work was described by GAFRA as "a series of portraits that are riveting and arrestingly beautiful in their depiction of feminine power, resilience, psychic integrity and spiritual faith." When it comes to portraying work and identity, Lipper is inspired by photographers Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, Auguste Sander and Lee Friedlander; by Studs Terkel's oral histories; and by paintings including Millet's Gleaners, Van Gogh's Two Peasant Women Digging and Vermeer's The Lacemaker.