Charlotte Cotton is a writer and curator.
She has been a creative director at the National Media Museum, UK, and head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the head of programming at The Photographers Gallery (2004-2005) in London and curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1992-2004). She is the author of Imperfect Beauty (2000), Guy Bourdin (2003), Then Things Went Quiet (2003) and The Photograph as Contemporary Art (2005).
She is also the founding editor of wordswithoutpictures.org.
