Marcia Schulman Martin

Marcia Schulman Martin was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1951, and raised on Long Island. She first became interested in photography in 1974, when she met her future husband, Russ, an MFA student, in college. After graduation she purchased a used medium-format camera, and they began photographing and exhibiting together.

In 1977 Marcia began a graduate program in Speech/Language Pathology, and abruptly gave up photography. Upon receiving her MA degree, she began a career as a speech/language pathologist, working primarily with handicapped children. She is now retired.

In 2005, on a whim, Marcia entered older images in "Black & White" magazine's 2006 Portfolio Contest, and was published. This was the catalyst for her return to photography after a hiatus of nearly 30 years. She set a goal of winning a spotlight in that publication's 2007 portfolio contest, and, indeed, her portfolio "Floating Leaves" appeared as a Spotlight/Feature in issue #50. In addition, one of her leaf images also was published in  "Popular Photography".   Marcia's work has subsequently appeared in Focus (2009), Black + White (2010), and FotoBlur (2010) magazines, as well as Smithsonian online, and such blogs as Elizabeth Avedon's and Lenscratch. In 2009 her "Portfolio of Floating Leaves" won a Lucie Award, and it is currently nominated for a "People's Choice Award" in PX3.