Biography

Daniel Traub is a photographer and filmmaker whose work explores the ways history and global forces register in everyday urban landscapes. His projects often focus on peripheries and transitional spaces — places where migration, power, and memory collide.

His photographic series include Little North Road, documenting the activities on a pedestrian bridge in Guangzhou, China; Nablus, a study of the Palestinian city in the West Bank; and North Philadelphia, examining a predominantly African American neighborhood shaped by industrial decline. Across these projects, Traub investigates the social, cultural, and architectural forces that shape contemporary urban life.

He has published two monographs with Kehrer Verlag: North Philadelphia and Little North Road. He is currently working on a book project based on photographs made while living in China from 1998 to 2007.

Traub's photographs have been exhibited internationally, with solo and group shows at venues including the Catherine Edelman Gallery (Chicago), Public Trust (Philadelphia), the Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt), and the Shanghai Center for Photography (SCoP). His work is held in public collections such as the Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

In his film work, Traub has developed observational projects that emerge from his photographic research. His moving-image work explores the everyday infrastructures of labor, migration, and urban transformation. Through his production company, Itinerant Pictures, he has also produced short and feature-length documentaries about contemporary artists.