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

Since 1990, he has organized or contributed to more than one hundred museum exhibitions and film programs. Roth is co-author and co-editor of numerous publications on American photography, including Gordon Parks: Collected Works (Steidl, 2012) and Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story (Steidl, 2018), as well as Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power (Steidl, 2008) and Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951–2004 (Phaidon, 2025).