Lesley Martin - On Publishing - a podcast by Gem Fletcher

In this episode, Gem Fletcher chats to Lesley Martin, creative director of Aperture. She has edited over eighty books including collaborations with Zanele Muholi, La Toya Ruby Frazier, Richard Mosse, Hank Willis Thomas, Rinko Kawauchi and Antwaun Sargent to name just a few. She is also the publisher of The PhotoBook Review, a newsprint journal dedicated to the evolving conversation surrounding the photobook. Her writing on photography has been published in Aperture, American Photo, FOAM, and Lay Flat, among other publications. In 2012, she co-founded the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
 
In this conversation, we discuss Lesley’s personal relationship to the platform of the book and the wider community. We reflect on the current state of photobook publishing and what it can offer a body of work. We talk about audience, the impact of self-publishing, how to decipher the most compelling pathway through a body of work and how to shepherd a project through a constantly shifting context. We talk about methodology, commitment as well as the rich history of the photobook. 
 
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