Diane Asséo Griliches entered the world of photography in 1981, while still directing music theatre in community theatres, high schools, and Kids & Co.

Among the institutions for which Diane has done professional work are the Houghton Rare Book Library at Harvard, and the New England Conservatory of Music. She has done several author portraits for book jackets, and photographs for numerous publications. Solo exhibitions have been held at the Library of Congress, Tanglewood Music Center, Beverly Hills Library, and the Boston Public Library among others. Her photographs are in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum, Houghton Library, Tanglewood Music Center, and the Library of Congress.

Her published books are:

Library: The Drama Within was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 1996, photographic portraits of the life inside libraries in many parts of the world. The photographs are accompanied by her commentaries and by quotations from literature. For the Love of Libraries is a postcard book of many of these photographs published by Pomegranate Press, which has also published a poster from the book.

An Appalachian Farmer's Story: Portrait of An Extraordinary Common Man was published by Mercer University Press in 2007. There are 80 b/w photographs. The farmer, Roy Anderson, speaks about his life into a tape recorder left with him. These words, transcribed, make up the book's text, which comes with a CD of excerpts of the farmer's voice.

Teaching Musicians: A Photographer's View is to be published in 2008 by Bunker Hill Publishing. There are 60 b/w photographs of musicians in the act of teaching. These include Ravi Shankar, YoYo Ma, and Bobby McFerrin. The text consists of short biographies of the musicians and quotations from teachers or students about their experiences in teaching or being taught.

Diane has two grown children and two cats. All live in the Boston area and often enjoy the serenity and extraordinary beauty on Lieutenant's Island on Cape Cod.