Martha Cooper is an unexpected icon of the street art movement - a tiny, grey-haired figure running alongside crews of masked graffiti artists. Cooper is the first female staff photographer at
In the 1970’s, as the boroughs of New York City burned, Cooper was both the first female staff photographer at the the New York Post and the first to seek images of creativity and play where others saw crime and poverty. As a result, she captured some of the first images of New York graffiti, at a time when the city had declared war on this new culture.
20 years later Martha is now a legend of the graffiti world - a culture that has exploded into a global movement.