Chris Boot is an independent photography editor based in London. His career began in 1984, with south London community activists, the Photo Co-op. After working for Magnum Photos, (including as director of its London and New York operations), and as editorial director at Phaidon Press, during the 1990s, Boot set up his own publishing imprint, Chris Boot Ltd., editing and publishing forty books including by Keith Arnatt, John Davies, Luc Delahaye, Martin Parr, Joy Gregory, Sunil Gupta, Tim Hetherington and Mikhael Subotzky. Between 2011 and 2021, Boot led the New York not-for-profit publisher Aperture as its executive director.