Chris Boot

Chris Boot (born 27 May 1960) is a British photography curator, book publisher, and has worked in a variety of other roles related to photography. He was director of London’s Photo Co-op, director of the London and New York offices of Magnum Photos, editorial director at Phaidon Press, founder of Chris Boot Ltd. a photography book publisher, and is now executive director of Aperture Foundation. In these roles he has commissioned, edited or published a number of noteworthy photography books.

Life and work Boot was born on 27 May 1960 in Kynnersley, Shropshire, England. He has a BA in photography from the Polytechnic of Central London, and a BA in English literature from the Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Between 1984 and 1990, Boot was director of London’s Photo Co-op (since renamed Photofusion), an independent photography resource center and gallery.

In 1990, he moved to Magnum Photos where he became director of its London and then, in 1995, of its New York office, until 1998. Boring Postcards from the collection of Martin Parr,

In 2024, Boot received an RPS (The Royal Photographic Society) Award for Photography Publishing.

Books commissioned or edited by Boot apart from those published by Chris Boot Ltd.

Chris Boot Ltd. His company Chris Boot Ltd., a London-based photographic publishing house and exhibition producer, launched in 2001 and operated until 2011. It published Lodz Ghetto Album by Henryk Ross (2004) and Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955 by Mary Panzer and :fr:Christian Caujolle (2005), both of which won the ICP Infinity Award.

When Boot left in 2011 his assistant Maxwell Anderson took over management and no new projects were initiated.

Chris Boot Ltd. published the following books of photography: