Marcy Robinson was born in 1969 in New York where she continues to live and work. She received a BFA in photography from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1991 and later studied at the Tisch School of Arts in New York. In 1996 she founded Killer Image, a fine photographic printing lab that she continues to operate. She has been interviewed by i-D Magazine and her images have appeared in Liberation Magazine, Surface, and Exit.