Russet Lederman is a writer, editor and photobook collector who lives in New York City. She has taught art writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York and writes on photobooks for print and online journals, including FOAM, The Eyes, IMA, Aperture and the International Center of Photography. She is a co-founder of the 10×10 Photobooks platform, co-edits The Gould Collection, and has edited numerous photography-based publications, including What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843–1999 and Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present. As an international lecturer on photobooks, she has given presentations at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Modern, Museum of Modern Art (NY), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris Photo, Reina Sofìa Museum, Rijksmuseum and New York Public Library. Lederman regularly contributes essays to anthologies on photography. Her published editorial work has received awards from Paris Photo-Aperture, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, AIGA, Walter Tiemann, Art Directors Club, Les Rencontres Arles, Prix Ars Electronica and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
