Martin Barnes is Senior Curator of Photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (V&A). He began working at the V&A in 1995 after gaining an MA in Art Museum Studies from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Since then, he has built, researched and published on the the collection, devised exhibitions, and conceived and developed the V&A Photography Centre. His special interests include early processes and experimental photography, industry, nature and the environment. He is currently overseeing digitization and research projects for the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) collection at the V&A.

Portrait of Martin by Lydia Goldblatt