Lesley A. Martin

Lesley A. Martin is executive director of Printed Matter. Formerly, she was the creative director of Aperture and founding publisher of The PhotoBook Review. She has edited more than 150 photography books, including An-My Lê’s Small Wars; Illuminance by Rinko Kawauchi; LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family; Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama; Pao Houa Her’s My grandfather turned into a tiger…; Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis; and I’m So Happy You Are Here: Japanese Women Photographers, from the 1950s to Now, co-edited with Pauline Vermare. She received the Royal Photographic Society award for outstanding achievement in Photographic Publishing in 2020 and served as visiting critic at the Yale University Graduate School of Art from 2016–2025.