>Penny Martin
Writer, Curator
Professor Penny Martin is a writer and broadcaster on fashion and photography. She is the Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion Imagery at London College of Fashion, before which she was Editor in Chief of SHOWstudio for seven years. She has curated many exhibitions, real world and especially online, and commissioned a wide range of photography, digital art and writing. She previously worked at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, The Women's Library and Manchester Metropolitan University. Penny has lectured internationally and contributes to publications including Another, Beaux Arts, Blueprint, Contemporary, Fantastic Man, Frieze, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, Numéro, UK Vogue, Japanese Vogue, Japanese Vogue Hommes magazines and La Repubblica and The Independent newspapers. Penny is also a presenter on BBC2's The Culture Show.
Related SHOWstudio Projects
INSIDE THE HOUSE OF VIKTOR & ROLF
(20 October 2008)Captured during the final week of their ground-breaking exhibition at London's Barbican Gallery, this series of films offers a glimpse...
EXPERIMENTS IN ADVERTISING: The Films of Erwin Blumenfeld
(25 September 2006)A unique chance to see the undiscovered, historic film footage of one of the most influential fashion photographers of all...
THE SOUND OF CLOTHES: ANECHOIC
(20 April 2006)Anechoic is a 'collections story' project that used sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments the...
SHELF APPEAL
(15 December 2004)An artificial sweetener dispenser designed by Karl Lagerfeld, a hairbrush whose bristles had been replaced by locks of human hair, coloured...
THE BELGIANS
( 5 March 2004)
END OF SUMMER
(11 September 2003)
KILLED
(23 January 2002)Selected Publications
'SHOOT', Rizzoli, 2009.
'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.