Shawn Waldron

Shawn Waldron is a New York-based archivist and curator specializing in photography. He was educated at the University of Connecticut and Simmons College before beginning his professional archival career as director of the Condé Nast Archive in 2003. His curatorial debut, an exhibition of work by Eduardo Garcia Benito, opened in Valladolid, Spain in 2009. In 2015, he became founding curator of the Condé Nast Gallery at One World Trade Center, where he organized exhibitions with photographers such as Elinor Carucci, Dan Winters, Peter Schlesinger, and the Estate of Horst P. Horst. In 2017, Waldron joined Getty Images as Exhibitions Curator and organized exhibitions featuring works by Slim Aarons, Tony Vaccaro, Janette Beckman, David Corio, and Barbara Alper. In 2018, he began managing the Slim Aarons Archive.

Along with the publications seen here, Waldron has presented at major museums, produced texts for exhibition catalogs and editorial publications, and is an Editorial Advisor to Musée magazine.