Drag Queen as Carmen Miranda, NYC Pride Parade, 1990 by Barbara Alper

Alper's artistic projects include the series Rockaway Beach, Sea Samba, and The Gulf Channel. Her photographs have been exhibited in, and included in the permanent collections of, The Brooklyn Museum, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; FNAC, Paris; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; The Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Publications include Rockaway Beach, Photojournal Asahi Camera, Japan; Picturing the Modern Amazon, edited by J. Stein et al, Rizzoli; Cats, Dogs 24-7, Chronicle Books; and 10,000 Eyes, Kodak/Thomasson-Grant.

Based in Manhattan, Alper is represented by Tepper Takayama Fine Arts, Boston, Envision-Stock, and Mega-Press, Tokyo. She holds a B.A. in Social Work from Michigan State University, and studied with renowned photographers Harold Feinstein and Lisette Model and at the MIT Creative Photo Lab, Cambridge, MA.