Shawn Waldron

Shawn Waldron is a New York-based archivist and curator specializing in photography. He was educated at the Univ of Connecticut and Simmons College before beginning his professional archival career as director of the Condé Nast Archive. His curatorial debut, an exhibition of work by 1920s illustrator Eduardo Garcia Benito, opened in 2009. In 2015, he was tapped to be the founding curator of the Condé Nast Gallery at One World Trade Center. Over two years, 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. While at Getty, he has worked with dozens of contributors including Tony Vaccaro, Janette Beckman, David Corio, and Barbara Alper, and also manages the Slim Aarons Archive. Waldron has presented at major museums, writes texts for exhibition catalogs and editorial publications, and is an Editorial Advisor to Musée magazine.