Daniel Traub is an American photographer who divides his time between New York City and
Shanghai, China. Since 1999, he has been engaged with long term projects in China including
"Simplified Characters" which explores the transformation of China’s cities through street
portraits and urban scenes, and "City’s Edge" which looks at the border region where urban and
rural China meet. More recently, he has been working on a project in Philadelphia, the city where
he was born.
His photographs have been exhibited in Asia, Europe and the United States, including a solo
exhibition at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, and are in the permanent collection of the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work has appeared in publications including The New
York Times Magazine, London Telegraph Magazine, Time Magazine and Wallpaper*. In 2008, he
was selected by Photo District News as one of 30 photographers to watch. In 2009, he was one
of ten photographers selected to participate in the Hyères Photo Festival in Hyères, France and
was awarded a fellowship from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia.
Additionally, Traub has been the director of photography for numerous documentaries and
reports for networks and production companies including PBS, German Television ZDF and Arte.
Selections from his film work can be viewed at www.film.danieltraub.net and www.vimeo.com/