Barbara Sonneborn has worked as a visual artist since 1973. Primarily a photographer, she has done set design, installation, and a children's book. Her photographs have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, many galleries, a one-person show in New York, and are included in many private and museum collections.
Her awards include an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, the Best Director documentary award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, the 1999 Independent Spirit Truer Than Fiction Award, a 1998 International Documentary Association Distinguished Achievement Award/ABC News VideoSource Award for the Best Use of Archival Footage, a 1998 Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Grants. Regret to Inform is Ms. Sonneborn's first film.