Dr Marta Weiss has been a Senior Curator and Curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London since 2007. As Lead Curator of the V&A Photography Centre, completed in 2023, she oversaw the creation of the UK’s largest space for a photography collection. Originally from New York, she studied history of art, with a specialisation in photography, at Harvard (BA) and Princeton (MA, PhD) and spent two years as a curatorial fellow in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Weiss’s numerous V&A exhibitions include The Camera Exposed (2016); Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s-1990s (2015); Light from the Middle East: New Photography (2012); and Julia Margaret Cameron (2015), which toured to five international venues. Her books include Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs to electrify you with delight and startle the world (2015); Autofocus: The Car in Photography (2019); Making It Up: Photographic Fictions (2018); and, with Lisa Springer, Julia Margaret Cameron: Arresting Beauty (2023).