Charlotte Cotton is the creative director of Media Space -- a partnership project between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum UK, which will open in London in 2012. Previously, Cotton was a curator of photographs at the Victoria & Albert Museum and head of programming at The Photographers' Gallery, London.

More recently Cotton was the head and curator of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has been a visiting critic and professor at Yale University, New Haven; SVA and Parson's, New York; UCLA, UC Irvine, USC, UCRiverside, Mills College, CCA, California; RCA and LCC, London.

She is the author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art and the founder of Wordswithoutpictures.org.

Generous support for the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program is provided by the Pilara Foundation / Pier 24 and Randi & Bob Fisher. Additional support by the Black Dog Private Foundation.