She was born in Paris, France, was raised in Tel Aviv, Israel and has a keen interest in cultures and community. In 2001, after spending nearly 30 years as a Physical Therapist, she made the personal commitment to devote herself to her photography full time.

Kantor's documentary photography projects look back at recent history and explore the survival. In her recent work, Kantor documents the rapidly disappearing population of Holocaust survivors and their lives within the vanishing shtetls (small towns) of Eastern Europe, exploring the strengths of a culture that lived through catastrophic times. In tandem to this project she is documenting the reemergence of Jewish life in Poland and Ukraine, looking at the renaissance of community, religion and creative life there.

Kantor's additional photographic essays trace the creative processes inspired by music, performing, and visual arts. In 2005 she completed a five-year photographic essay on the distinctive Fort Worth Hip Pocket Theatre, and is also currently working to document North Texas performing and visual artists, creating environmental portraits of the artists who contribute to the vibrant culture in her community.

Kantor prefers to work with traditional black and white film, using available light in a variety of formats, printed in silver gelatin process as well as platinum/palladium. She is a capable digital photographer and printer, and is happy to discuss creative collaborations that would involve her documenting upcoming cultural history projects.