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Daniel Traub is a photographer and filmmaker based in Philadelphia, the city where he grew up. He lived in China from 1998 to 2007, and much of his work since has been made where cultures and economies meet: the unsettled edges of Beijing and Shanghai, a pedestrian bridge in Guangzhou where African traders and Chinese street photographers crossed paths, the Palestinian city of Nablus, and the streets of North Philadelphia. Plexiglass Arches and Plastic Flowers (2020–) studies the Chinese takeout restaurant in Philadelphia as an architecture of encounter.
Alongside his own photographs, Traub has long worked with images made by others. Little North Road (Kehrer Verlag, 2015) brought his pictures together with an archive of portraits by two itinerant photographers on the Guangzhou bridge. Recent projects extend that interest to images produced by commercial and digital systems: After-Images (2022–23), made with an AI image generator, and Ten Thousand Things (2026–), which re-edits demonstration videos from Chinese manufacturing and sales platforms.
His books include North Philadelphia (Kehrer Verlag, 2014) and Little North Road, shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award; a book of his Beijing photographs is in development. His work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Breda Photo Festival, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt and the Shanghai Center of Photography, among others, and is held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
His documentaries include Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own (2019), The Barefoot Artist (2014) and Xu Bing: Phoenix (2013). Through Itinerant Pictures, he also makes commissioned films and photographs for museums, cultural institutions, architects and designers.
Traub is the son of the architect David S. Traub and the artist Lily Yeh.
Alongside his own photographs, Traub has long worked with images made by others. Little North Road (Kehrer Verlag, 2015) brought his pictures together with an archive of portraits by two itinerant photographers on the Guangzhou bridge. Recent projects extend that interest to images produced by commercial and digital systems: After-Images (2022–23), made with an AI image generator, and Ten Thousand Things (2026–), which re-edits demonstration videos from Chinese manufacturing and sales platforms.
His books include North Philadelphia (Kehrer Verlag, 2014) and Little North Road, shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award; a book of his Beijing photographs is in development. His work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Breda Photo Festival, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt and the Shanghai Center of Photography, among others, and is held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
His documentaries include Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own (2019), The Barefoot Artist (2014) and Xu Bing: Phoenix (2013). Through Itinerant Pictures, he also makes commissioned films and photographs for museums, cultural institutions, architects and designers.
Traub is the son of the architect David S. Traub and the artist Lily Yeh.
Curriculum vitaeDownload PDF (2026) →
Born 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lives and works in Philadelphia
EducationMFA, Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 1998
BA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 1994
Sight and Sound film production course, New York University, New York, NY, 1993
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1989–1991
Selected Solo ExhibitionsIN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2019
Public Trust (formerly Slought Foundation), Philadelphia, PA, 2015
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2012
Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
Art Institute of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2008
Lives and works in Philadelphia
EducationMFA, Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 1998
BA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 1994
Sight and Sound film production course, New York University, New York, NY, 1993
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1989–1991
Selected Solo ExhibitionsIN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2019
Public Trust (formerly Slought Foundation), Philadelphia, PA, 2015
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2012
Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
Art Institute of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2008
Two & Three-Person ExhibitionsYearbook, Philadelphia Photo Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Here’s Looking at You!, Shanghai Center of Photography (SCoP), Shanghai, China, 2017
Retrieved, San Francisco Camerawork and Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA, 2016
China in Transition: A Closer Look, FotoFest, Houston, TX, 2008
Suburban Developments, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions2023
Über/Sehen: Bildregime der Migration, cubus kunsthalle, Duisburg, Germany
Something To Go After: WUTIANREN+, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China
2021
New Grit: Art & Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2020
China Imagined, Breda Photo Festival, Breda, Netherlands
2019
Narrating Migration, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2017
Simultaneous Eidos, Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangzhou, China
Your Selfie Stick and You, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook 2016 – Traveling Exhibition
2016
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook 2016 – Traveling Exhibition
Tête-à-Tête: Conversations in Photography, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
2015
Looking Askance, GallerySKE and University of Chicago Delhi Center, New Delhi, India
Future Tense, UNM Art Museum/516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2014
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012
A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Photography from the Archive, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
2011
Documentary PIX: Philadelphia, A Century of Change, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Toward the Social Landscape, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA and New Space Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2010
Chinescape, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Vestiges, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Studio Theater Gallery, Middlesex County College, NJ
2009
Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Woodmere Triennial, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
24th Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
Seen in China, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Myers School of Art
Introductions ’09, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Next: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
The Photo Review, Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
82nd Annual International Competition: Photography, Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
New Faces of Photography: 2008 PDN30, New York, NY
2007
Document/Portrait, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Migrations, Fotofestiwal 2007, Lodz, Poland
Sinocities, Shanghai Sculpture Garden, Shanghai, China
HHS Spring 07, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
HCP Fellowship Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Among Us and Curious, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Up and Now!, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
Twenty First Century, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2006
Annual, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Twenty First Century, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2005
Urban Landscapes, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China
Border Crossing, Taipei Artist Village and Tainan University of the Arts, Taiwan
Simplified Characters, Shanghai High Noon Culture Centre, Shanghai, China
1998
John Ehrenclou, Keith Miller, Daniel Traub, SVA MFA Photography & Related Media Thesis Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Ancestors, Asian American Arts Center and Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Public CollectionsBelfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
MonographsLittle North Road, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2015
North Philadelphia, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2014
Selected Awards and FellowshipsIlluminate the Arts Grant, Philadelphia, PA, 2025 and 2022
Pew Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA, nominee, 2021
Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year, shortlist, 2016
Lucie Award, nominee, 2016
Prix Pictet, nominee, 2016
John Gutmann Fellowship Award, nominee, 2014 and 2010
Photo Lucida Critical Mass 50, 2010, 2008 and 2007
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, residency, 2009
Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA, fellowship, 2009
The Photo Review, first prize, 2009
Photo District News, 30 Emerging Photographers, 2008
FotoFestiwal, Łódź, Poland, award, 2007
PDN Photo Annual, personal work category, winner, 2007
Selected Lectures and PanelsArcadia University, Glenside, PA, 2021
IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2019
Morphomata, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 2018
Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China, 2017
Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2017
Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 2016
Asia Society, New York, NY, 2016
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, 2016
Public Trust (formerly Slought Foundation), Philadelphia, PA, 2015
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Pop-Up Magazine, San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA, 2014
School of the International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 2013
TeachingSchool of Visual Arts, New York, NY, thesis advisor, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, 2018
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, independent study advisor, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, 2010
New York University, Shanghai, China, adjunct professor, photography, one semester, 2007
Show full CVHere’s Looking at You!, Shanghai Center of Photography (SCoP), Shanghai, China, 2017
Retrieved, San Francisco Camerawork and Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA, 2016
China in Transition: A Closer Look, FotoFest, Houston, TX, 2008
Suburban Developments, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions2023
Über/Sehen: Bildregime der Migration, cubus kunsthalle, Duisburg, Germany
Something To Go After: WUTIANREN+, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China
2021
New Grit: Art & Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2020
China Imagined, Breda Photo Festival, Breda, Netherlands
2019
Narrating Migration, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2017
Simultaneous Eidos, Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangzhou, China
Your Selfie Stick and You, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook 2016 – Traveling Exhibition
2016
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook 2016 – Traveling Exhibition
Tête-à-Tête: Conversations in Photography, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
2015
Looking Askance, GallerySKE and University of Chicago Delhi Center, New Delhi, India
Future Tense, UNM Art Museum/516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2014
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012
A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Photography from the Archive, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
2011
Documentary PIX: Philadelphia, A Century of Change, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Toward the Social Landscape, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA and New Space Center for Photography, Portland, OR
2010
Chinescape, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Vestiges, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Studio Theater Gallery, Middlesex County College, NJ
2009
Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Woodmere Triennial, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
24th Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
Seen in China, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Myers School of Art
Introductions ’09, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA
Next: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
The Photo Review, Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2008
82nd Annual International Competition: Photography, Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
New Faces of Photography: 2008 PDN30, New York, NY
2007
Document/Portrait, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Migrations, Fotofestiwal 2007, Lodz, Poland
Sinocities, Shanghai Sculpture Garden, Shanghai, China
HHS Spring 07, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
HCP Fellowship Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Among Us and Curious, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Up and Now!, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
Twenty First Century, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2006
Annual, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Twenty First Century, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2005
Urban Landscapes, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China
Border Crossing, Taipei Artist Village and Tainan University of the Arts, Taiwan
Simplified Characters, Shanghai High Noon Culture Centre, Shanghai, China
1998
John Ehrenclou, Keith Miller, Daniel Traub, SVA MFA Photography & Related Media Thesis Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Ancestors, Asian American Arts Center and Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Public CollectionsBelfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
MonographsLittle North Road, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2015
North Philadelphia, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 2014
Selected Awards and FellowshipsIlluminate the Arts Grant, Philadelphia, PA, 2025 and 2022
Pew Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA, nominee, 2021
Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook of the Year, shortlist, 2016
Lucie Award, nominee, 2016
Prix Pictet, nominee, 2016
John Gutmann Fellowship Award, nominee, 2014 and 2010
Photo Lucida Critical Mass 50, 2010, 2008 and 2007
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, residency, 2009
Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA, fellowship, 2009
The Photo Review, first prize, 2009
Photo District News, 30 Emerging Photographers, 2008
FotoFestiwal, Łódź, Poland, award, 2007
PDN Photo Annual, personal work category, winner, 2007
Selected Lectures and PanelsArcadia University, Glenside, PA, 2021
IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2019
Morphomata, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 2018
Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China, 2017
Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2017
Conference on World Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 2016
Asia Society, New York, NY, 2016
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, 2016
Public Trust (formerly Slought Foundation), Philadelphia, PA, 2015
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Pop-Up Magazine, San Francisco and Los Angeles, CA, 2014
School of the International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 2013
TeachingSchool of Visual Arts, New York, NY, thesis advisor, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, 2018
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, independent study advisor, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, 2010
New York University, Shanghai, China, adjunct professor, photography, one semester, 2007
Filmography
Director and producerFeatures
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own, director, producer, 2019
The Barefoot Artist, co-director with Glenn Holsten, producer, 2014
Short films
Little North Road, director, producer, 2015
Xu Bing: Phoenix, director, producer, 2013
Vanishing Point, director, producer, 1998
Selected screenings and reviewsUrsula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own
World premiere, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2019
Santa Fe Film Festival; Hamptons Doc Fest at Parrish Art Museum; Architecture Design Art Film Festival; Berkshire International Film Festival, 2020
Film Forum, New York (virtual theatrical release); BAMPFA, Berkeley; Brava Theater, San Francisco; Cornell Cinema, Ithaca; Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, 2020
Distributed by Icarus Films
Reviews: Glenn Kenny, The New York Times; Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times; G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle; Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews; Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post; Bobby LePire, Film Threat, 2020
The Barefoot Artist
Kimmel Center, Philadelphia; Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, Washington, DC; IFC Center, New York; Laemmle NoHo 7, Los Angeles, 2014
Distributed by Film Movement
Reviews: Victoria Fleischer, PBS NewsHour; Dennis Harvey, Variety; Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times; Andy Webster, The New York Times; Melissa Dribben, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2014
Xu Bing: Phoenix
MASS MoCA, North Adams; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC; Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York; Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas; United Art Museum, Wuhan, 2013
Distributed by Icarus Films
Reviews: Ellen Pearlman, Hyperallergic, 2013; P. Hall, Video Librarian, 2015
Cinematographer, selectedFeatures
Hollywood Beauty Salon, 2015
Badddd Sonia Sanchez, 2015
OC87, 2010
Short films
Awakening Creativity, 2017
London Bridge, with Joel Sternfeld, 2016
Television
Computers v. Crime, NOVA, PBS, 2022
Decoding da Vinci, NOVA, PBS, 2019
Kunst in der Wüste, Arte, 2019
Decoding the Weather Machine, NOVA, PBS, 2018
Treasures of the Earth, NOVA, PBS, 2016
Charged: The DA vs. Black America, BET, 2016
Marijuana Wars, Al Jazeera, 2014
Unwanted Children, Dan Rather Reports, 2014
Ground Zero Supertower, NOVA, PBS, 2013
Engineering Ground Zero, NOVA, PBS, 2011
Heat, Frontline, PBS, 2008
The Loneliest Animals, Nature, PBS, 2008
Silence of the Bees, Nature, PBS, 2008
Driving Dreams, National Geographic and CBC, 2006
Art China, ZDF, 2006
Documentaries for ZDF, Phoenix and Arte in China and Mongolia, 2000–2004
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own, director, producer, 2019
The Barefoot Artist, co-director with Glenn Holsten, producer, 2014
Short films
Little North Road, director, producer, 2015
Xu Bing: Phoenix, director, producer, 2013
Vanishing Point, director, producer, 1998
Selected screenings and reviewsUrsula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own
World premiere, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2019
Santa Fe Film Festival; Hamptons Doc Fest at Parrish Art Museum; Architecture Design Art Film Festival; Berkshire International Film Festival, 2020
Film Forum, New York (virtual theatrical release); BAMPFA, Berkeley; Brava Theater, San Francisco; Cornell Cinema, Ithaca; Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, 2020
Distributed by Icarus Films
Reviews: Glenn Kenny, The New York Times; Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times; G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle; Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews; Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post; Bobby LePire, Film Threat, 2020
The Barefoot Artist
Kimmel Center, Philadelphia; Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, Washington, DC; IFC Center, New York; Laemmle NoHo 7, Los Angeles, 2014
Distributed by Film Movement
Reviews: Victoria Fleischer, PBS NewsHour; Dennis Harvey, Variety; Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times; Andy Webster, The New York Times; Melissa Dribben, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2014
Xu Bing: Phoenix
MASS MoCA, North Adams; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC; Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York; Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas; United Art Museum, Wuhan, 2013
Distributed by Icarus Films
Reviews: Ellen Pearlman, Hyperallergic, 2013; P. Hall, Video Librarian, 2015
Cinematographer, selectedFeatures
Hollywood Beauty Salon, 2015
Badddd Sonia Sanchez, 2015
OC87, 2010
Short films
Awakening Creativity, 2017
London Bridge, with Joel Sternfeld, 2016
Television
Computers v. Crime, NOVA, PBS, 2022
Decoding da Vinci, NOVA, PBS, 2019
Kunst in der Wüste, Arte, 2019
Decoding the Weather Machine, NOVA, PBS, 2018
Treasures of the Earth, NOVA, PBS, 2016
Charged: The DA vs. Black America, BET, 2016
Marijuana Wars, Al Jazeera, 2014
Unwanted Children, Dan Rather Reports, 2014
Ground Zero Supertower, NOVA, PBS, 2013
Engineering Ground Zero, NOVA, PBS, 2011
Heat, Frontline, PBS, 2008
The Loneliest Animals, Nature, PBS, 2008
Silence of the Bees, Nature, PBS, 2008
Driving Dreams, National Geographic and CBC, 2006
Art China, ZDF, 2006
Documentaries for ZDF, Phoenix and Arte in China and Mongolia, 2000–2004
Commissions → selected magazine assignments, 2003–2015 · Itinerant Pictures → commissioned films and photography
Selected press
Alexandre Kurek, “068 Daniel Traub – Philadelphia,” All Cities Are Beautiful, 2021
Bobby LePire, “Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own,” Film Threat, September 29, 2020.
Pauline Eiferman, “On the Bridge: Q&A with Daniel Traub,” Roads and Kingdoms, February 24, 2016.
Mia Diehl, “The Global Economy on Little North Road,” Fortune, June 2016.
F-Stop Magazine, “Book Review: Little North Road by Daniel Traub,” Hans Durrer, August 1, 2016.
Michael Lieberman, “Daniel Traub’s Little North Road,” Artblog, October 30, 2015.
“The Bridge,” California Sunday Magazine, March 1, 2015.
Landscape Stories, “26 Habitare - China Migrant Communities,” 2017.
“North Philadelphia,” Life Force Magazine, January 2016.
Jason Hanna, “Faces, Places in North Philadelphia,” CNN, February 12, 2015.
Adam Bell, “North Philadelphia,” photo-eye, November 17, 2014.
Platform Green, “North Philadelphia Revisited,” 2014.
Ellen Pearlman, “A Tale of Two Phoenixes,” Hyperallergic, July 3, 2013.
Cliff Shapiro, “Daniel Traub – Lots,” photo-eye, November 29, 2011.
Scott Rothstein, “Daniel Traub,” Escape into Life, July 2, 2010.
Radio, podcasts, video
“Xiaobeilu,” Vice (China), 2014. (7 minute documentary)
Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, Interview, “On the Interstices,” Artblog Radio, February 14, 2011.
About this site
This site was rebuilt in 2026 to mark thirty years of work, 1996–2026. It is both a portfolio and a working archive: personal projects, films, books and commissioned work, gathered in one place, dated, and listed with exhibition and publication details where they exist.
It is an ongoing project. Earlier work, including photographs from the 1980s, is still being added, and corrections are welcome at studio@danieltraub.net.
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LinkedInCurriculum vitaeDownload PDF (2026)