Penny Martin, Editor in Chief of SHOWstudio, is a curator and writer on fashion and photography who has lectured internationally. Since studying at Glasgow and Manchester Universities and The Royal College of Art, she has worked as a Curator at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television and The Women's Library and as a Researcher and Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Penny curated the Vogue Laid Out exhibition at The V&A in 2000 and is an interviewer for The National Sound Archive. She has also contributed to Another, Beaux Arts, Blueprint, Contemporary, Fantastic Man, Frieze, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, Numéro, UK Vogue and Japanese Vogue magazines and La Repubblica and The Independent newspapers. Penny is also a presenter on BBC2's The Culture Show.
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'The Oxford Companion to the Photograph', Oxford University Press, 2005.
'Fashion Now 2', Jones, T. & Rushton, S. (eds.), Taschen, 2005.
'The Englishness of English Dress', Breward, C. & Conekin, B. (eds.), Berg, 2001.