Paul Roth has been Director of The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University since 2013. Previously, he served as Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC; as Executive Director of The Richard Avedon Foundation in New York; and as archivist of the Robert Frank Collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Roth served as Chair of the Jury for the 40th Anniversary Hasselblad Award for Photography in 2019. Since 1990, he has organized (or co-organized) more than 100 museum exhibitions and film programs, including Richard Avedon: Immortal, Portraits of Aging 1951-2004 (2026); Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press (2023-2024); Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story (2018); Scotiabank Photography Award 2014: Mark Ruwedel (2015); Edward Burtynsky: Oil (2009); Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power (2008); Sally Mann: What Remains (2004); and I…Dreaming: The Visionary Cinema of Stan Brakhage (National Gallery of Art, 2002).

He is author and co-editor of numerous publications on American photography, including Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951–2004 (Phaidon, 2025); Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story (Steidl, 2018); Gordon Parks: Collected Works (Steidl, 2012); and Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power (Steidl, 2008), among others.

Photograph by Clifton Li for The Image Centre, Toronto.

Photographs in the background are by Richard Avedon and are copyright The Richard Avedon Foundation, New York. Left: Jean Renoir, director, Beverly Hills, California, April 11, 1972. Right: John Ford, director, Bel Air, California, April 11, 1972.