Guest Room:
Lesley A. Martin

Lesley A. Martin is the creative director, Aperture Foundation, and publisher of »The PhotoBook Review«. She has curated exhibitions that have traveled both nationally and internationally, including »The Ubiquitous Image« and »Aperture Remix«, a commission-based exhibition celebrating Aperture’s sixtieth anniversary; she has also edited more than eighty-five photobooks, including Rinko Kawauchi’s »Illuminance«, LaToya Ruby Frazier’s »The Notion of Family«, and forthcoming books by Richard Misrach and Gregory Crewdson. In addition to her work on »The Chinese Photobook«, she was a contributing editor to »Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s« and »The Latin American Photobook«. Her writing on photography has been published in Aperture, FOAM, Ojo de Pez, and Lay Flat among other publications. In 2011, she cofounded the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. She currently teaches a graduate course on photobooks at the Yale University School of Art.