Photographer Constance “Connie” H. Halporn studied media and fine arts at Kirkland College (B.A. 1978) and Long Island University (MFA 2015). She began her career at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (formerly known as the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center) in the Audio Visual Services department in October 1981. As Medical Photographer, she created thousands of slides and other photographic formats for medical center faculty and staff. She served as staff photographer at the Center for Biomedical Communications—the centralized audiovisual service established in the early 1980s. Halporn worked with numerous faculty, photographing the illustrations in their books, such as John K. Lattimer’s Hitler’s Fatal Sickness and Other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders, Sadek Hilal’s sodium imaging of the brain in an academic paper, shoulder reconstruction by Charles Neer, and for hand surgeon Robert C. Carroll.

Concurrently, Halporn photographed judo competitions and events, serving as the official photographer for USA Judo at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She was also the official photographer for the American-Canadian Judo Challenge, and the videographer for USA Judo at the World Championships for Judo in Barcelona, Spain.

She has photographed and exhibited for the Center for Thanatology, including exhibit Vox Populi: Memorials by the People. She is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers.