Maya Ben­ton is a cura­tor at the Inter­na­tion­al Cen­ter of Pho­tog­ra­phy in NYC, where she estab­lished and over­sees a major pub­lic archive. She has curat­ed numer­ous trav­el­ing exhi­bi­tions and is a fre­quent lec­tur­er and con­trib­u­tor to mag­a­zines and cat­a­logs, address­ing themes of mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary pho­tog­ra­phy, Israeli art and Jew­ish visu­al and mate­r­i­al cul­ture. She is a grad­u­ate of Brown Uni­ver­si­ty, Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty and the Cour­tauld Insti­tute of Art in London.