Marcia Bricker Halperin, a lifelong Brooklynite, has been photographing the character and landscape of New York City since the 1970s. She received a Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College and studied with Lisette Model at the New School. In the late 1970s, she was active in the Photographers Forum, an organization that was a continuation of the 1940s Photo League, reflecting their humanistic and aesthetic concerns. She went on to spend 35 years in K-12 education teaching art and photography and using her creativity in special education. Since retiring, she has been scanning and printing large bodies of unseen negatives from her archives. Her work has been exhibited at the Edward Hopper House Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the International Center of Photography, and is included in numerous collections.