Lesley Martin

Lesley A. Martin is Publisher of the book-publishing program at the Aperture Foundation, where she has worked on-and-off since 1995. In between stints at Aperture, she served as senior editor and production director of Umbrage Editions. Her writing on photography has been published in Aperture, American Photo, and DoubleTake, among other publications and she has edited over fifty books of photography, including Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer; An-My Lê: Small Wars; My Life in Politics: Tim Davis; Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names by Alex Webb; Richard Misrach: On the Beach; Beate Gütschow: LS/S; Paris o New York o Shanghai by Hans Eijkelboom.

Martin is also the coauthor of two volumes on design, Graphicscape: Tokyo and Graphicscape: New York; and the contributing editor to Full Vinyl: The Subversive Art of Designer Toys. In 2006, America Photo named Martin one of the Innovators of the Year, because "She's breaking the mold for iconic photography books" with her cadre of "conceptually oriented books that have added a fresh vision to the photography world."