Selected Films
These film works emerge from long-term photographic investigations into contested urban spaces, migration, and the social peripheries of global cities.
Everything You Need is Right in Front of You
Philadelphia, USA | In development
A portrait of the invisible systems that keep a city alive. Through the daily work of independent hauler Rob Gore and his mother Anne—a longtime neighborhood caretaker—the film traces Philadelphia’s informal networks of waste, labor, and care. Moving from scrap yards to a makeshift daycare, these interconnected worlds reveal a fragile, improvised infrastructure held together by resourcefulness, grit, and the materials at hand.
Philadelphia, USA | In development
A portrait of the invisible systems that keep a city alive. Through the daily work of independent hauler Rob Gore and his mother Anne—a longtime neighborhood caretaker—the film traces Philadelphia’s informal networks of waste, labor, and care. Moving from scrap yards to a makeshift daycare, these interconnected worlds reveal a fragile, improvised infrastructure held together by resourcefulness, grit, and the materials at hand.
Wu and Zeng
Guangzhou, China | 2014
Filmed between 2009 and 2014, Wu and Zeng follows two Chinese itinerant portrait photographers who set up a studio on a pedestrian bridge in Guangzhou. For African traders and other travelers, the bridge became both a symbolic gateway into China and a place to commission a portrait as a memento of their time there.
Cabaret Okinawa
Okinawa, Japan | 2018
Filmed in Okinawa’s nightlife districts adjacent to American bases, the project observes bars, clubs, and music as sites where the lives of U.S. service members and local Okinawans intersect. It listens to doors, stages, and soundscapes — where geopolitics filters into everyday performance.
Director/Producer: Greg Girard/Daniel Traub
Director of Photography: Daniel Traub
Director/Producer: Greg Girard/Daniel Traub
Director of Photography: Daniel Traub
Mufid
Nablus, West Bank | 2011
Mufid follows a boy named Mufid and his circle of friends in the Palestinian city of Nablus. Ranging in age from 10 to 15, the boys hover between childhood games and an emerging awareness of the political situation around them.
Nablus, West Bank | 2011
Mufid follows a boy named Mufid and his circle of friends in the Palestinian city of Nablus. Ranging in age from 10 to 15, the boys hover between childhood games and an emerging awareness of the political situation around them.