Leanne Shapton on Committing to the Experiment

Robbie Lawrence

“It’s really almost like an oblique decision, like a decision I make with my peripheral vision, with my left hand.”

Leanne Shapton is an author, artist and publisher based in New York City. She is the co-founder, with photographer Jason Fulford, of J&L Books, an internationally-distributed not-for-profit imprint specializing in art and photography books. Shapton is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. She grew up in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.