Bio

Gillian Laub (b.1975, raised in Chappaqua, New York) is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in comparative literature before studying photography at the International Center of Photography, where her love of visual storytelling and family narratives began.

Laub’s first monograph, Testimony (Aperture 2007), began as a response to the media coverage during the second intifada in the Middle East. This work is comprised of portraits and testimonies from Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, Lebanese, and Palestinians all directly and indirectly affected by the conflict.

Laub spent over a decade working in Georgia exploring issues of lingering racism in the American South. This work became Laub’s first feature length, directed and produced, documentary film, Southern Rites that premiered on HBO. Her monograph, Southern Rites (Damiani, 2015) and travelling exhibition by the same title came out in conjunction with the film and are being used for an educational outreach campaign, in schools and institutions across the country. Southern Rites was named one of the best photo books by TIME, Smithsonian, Vogue, LensCulture, and American Photo. It was also nominated for a Lucie award and Humanitas award.

"Riveting...In a calm, understated tone, Southern Rites digs deep to expose the roots that have made segregated proms and other affronts possible. Southern Rites is a portrait of the inequities that lead to disaster on the streets of cities like Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo.” - The New York Times

Gillian’s most recent monograph Family Matters (Aperture), spanning over twenty years of photographs, explores how society’s biggest questions are revealed in our most intimate relationships; zeroing in on the artist family as an example of the way Donald Trump’s knack for sowing discord and division had impacted communities, individuals, and households across the country. An exhibition of Family Matters opened at the International Center of Photography in conjunction with the publication.

Laub recently recieved the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was honored as a NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow in 2019.

Laub has been interviewed on The View, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Good Morning America, Times Talks and numerous others. Laub contributes to many publications including TIME , The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair. Laub’s work has been widely collected and exhibited, and is included in the collects of the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Terrana Collection, Boston; Jewish Museum. New York; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (now American University Museum Collection in Washington, DC), and a wide range of corporate and private collections.

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EDUCATION

1997 BA Comparative Literature; University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI American University of Paris Semester at Sea
1998 International Center of Photography, New York, NY

EXHIBITIONS

2022 “Family Matters”, Fotografihuset, Oslo, Norway
2022 “A New Family Portrait”, Photolux Festival, Lucca, Italy
2022 “Southern Rites”, Asheville Art Museum, Ashville NC
2022 “Gillian Laub: Family Matters”, International Center of Photography, NY
2020 “Southern Rites” Traveling Exhibition, UMBC Center for Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD
2020 “Southern Rites” Traveling Exhibition, Oregon Jewish Museum, Portland ,OR
2020 “Southbound”, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
2019 “Southbound”, Duke University, Durham NC
2019 “Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection” ICP Museum, New York, NY
2019 “Modern Families”, ArtsWestchester Gallery, White Plains, NY
2019 “Southern Rites” Traveling Exhibition, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2018 "Southbound", Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC
2018 “Southern Rites”, Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH
2017 "Showing (work x family)", Framingham University, Framingham, MA
2016 "Feast for the Eyes", Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2016 "WE: AMEricans", Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
2016 “Group Show 48: Winter Pictures", Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
2015 “Southern Rites,” Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2015 “The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2015,” Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2015 “The Rights of Summer,” Ripe Art Gallery, New York, NY
2014 "Traffic," Jaffa Salon, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2013 "Perchance to Dream," Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
2012-2013 "WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; travelled to Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Brooklyn Museum.
2012-2013 “Going Out,” 511 Gallery, New York, NY
2011 "FOUR Generations," LOOK3 Festival Projections, Charlottesville, VA
2011 “The Collectors Guide to New Art Photography,” Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2011 "Fuck Pretty," Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 “Moment of Recognition,” International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2010 “This Time in America,” Gallery I/D, Miami, FL
2009 “The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography,” The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2009 “Au Feminin: Women Photographing Women 1849-2009,” Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
2008 “Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children,” The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2008 "Portraiture,” Getty Images Satellite Show, New York Photo Festival
2007 “An American Life,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2007 “Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2007 “Act of Faith: On Faith and Conflict, Ecstasy, and Excess,” Noorderlicht Festival, Groningen, Netherlands
2006 “20/30 Vision: An Anniversary Celebration,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Human Cost of Terror,” Pikto Photo Gallery, Toronto, CA
2006 “Learning from a Vast River of Suffering: A Global Human Rights Epidemic,” The Human Rights Gallery, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2006 “New Art, New York: Reflections of the Human Condition,” Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria
2006 “Schweppes: Photographic Portrait Prize 2005,” National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2005 Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2004 “Shifting the Political,” Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
2004 “Common Ground,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “Water Water Everywhere,” Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “Terrorvision,” Exit Art, New York, NY
2004 “Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty,” Presented by Dove, Toronto, Canada (Canadian Traveling Exhibition)
2003 “By the Sea,” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “Flash: Swimsuits & Sports,” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2003 “Enough,” FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003 “CMYK: Contemporary Color,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2003 "Central Park 150th year Anniversary," The Arsenal, New York
2002 “Advance Notice,” International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2002 “Sexuality and Voyeurism,” Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2002 “At Play,” SoHo Triad Fine Arts, New York, NY
2001 “Summer Saloon IV,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “Identity in Relationships,” Makor Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “Family,” Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
2001 Paris Photo International, Le Carousel de Louvre, Paris, France
2000 “Air Conditioned,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson Collection, New York, NY
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, New Hampshire
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
Terrana Collection, Boston, MA
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

AWARDS & HONORS

2020 PDN Photo Annual, Editorial Award Recipient
2020 American Photography 26, Award Recipient
2019 Alice Austen House Award for the Advancement of Photography
2019 NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellowship Grant
2019 Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017 21st Annual Webby Awards Winner for Best Use of Video or Moving Image
2017 21st Annual Webby Awards Honoree for Online Guerrilla & Innovation
2017 Davey Award Best in Show for Mobile Innovative / Experimental App
2017 Wood Pencil Award - As American As - Photography for Advertising
2017 American Photo 33, Award Recipient
2017 PDN Photo Annual, Editorial Award Recipient
2016 American Photo 32, Award Recipient
2015 Humanitas Prize Finalist: Documentary Category
2015 Social Impact Media Awards Jurors Pick
2015 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, Selected Exhibitor
2015 Lucie Award Nominee
2015 American Photo 31, Award Recipient
2015 PDN Photo Annual, Multimedia Award Recipient
2014 Aaron Siskind Grant Recipient
2014 PDN, Arnold Newman Portrait Prize Nominee
2014 PDN Photo Annual, Mulitmedia Award Recipient
2014 American Photography 30, Award Recipient
2012 American Photography 28, Award Recipient
2010 American Photography 26, Award Recipient
2010 PDN Photo Annual, Award Recipient
2009 American Photography 25, Award Recipient
2009 PDN Photo Annual, Award Recipient
2008 Prix de la Photographie Paris, 1st Place for Book -Testimony
2008 Art Directors Club Annual, Award Recipient
2007 Aperture Foundation, Award to Emerging Artist
2005 Jerome Foundation Grant
2005 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, Selected Exhibitor
2005 American Photography 21, Award Recipient
2005 PDN Nikon Story Tellers Award
2004 American Photography 20, Award Recipient
2003 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, Award Participant

MONOGRAPH

Southern Rites; Damiani, 2015
Testimony: Photographs by Gillian Laub; (hardcover) Aperture Press, 2007
Testimoni: Fotografie di Gillian Laub; (Italian Edition, hardcover) Contrasto, 2007

BOOKS & CATALOGUES

Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap, Smithsonian, 2020
Photo/Work: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, Sasha Wold, Aperture Magazine, 2020
American Photography: 35, AI-AP, 2020
WOMEN: The National Geographic Image Collection, 2019
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Exhibition Catalog, 2018
50 Years of New York Magazine, 2017
Fotorelief, Exhibition Catalog, 2016
Exit.No. 49: Autobiography, 2013
WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, Exhibiton Catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, 2012
Photographs, The New York Times and Aperture Foundation, 2011
Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol II, Humble Arts Foundation, 2010
Au Feminin: Women Photographing Women 1849-2009, Exhibition Catalogue, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 2009
SP: Land, Sea, Air, Catalogue 2008
Center of Photography at Woodstock, Catalogue 2008
Portfolio: New York Photography Festival, Exhibition Catalogue, 2008
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, edited by DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2008
Act of Faith: On Faith, Conflict, Ecstasy and Excess, Noorderlicht Fotomanifestatie, Idea Books, 2007
Land in zicht: The World According to Vingboons in the 17th C., Exhibition Catalogue, Waanders Uitgevers, Nationaal Archief, 2007
Dateline: Israel, Exhibition Catalogue, Yale, 2007
New Art-New York: Reflections of the Human Condition, Exhibition Catalogue 2005
Recontres de la Photographie, Exhibition Catalogue, Actes Sud, 2005
Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, Exhibition Catalogue, NPG 2005
Society of Publication Designers Photography and Illustration, Catalogue, 2004
American Photography 20, Amilius Inc., 2004
Because I’m Worth It, book, poem by Paula Bennett and text by Carol Hamilton et al., Assouline Press, 2004
Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty, Exhibition Catalogue, Sandy Alexander Inc., 2004
Enough; World Press Photo Catalogue, Mets and Schilt, 2003
Fashion Photography Now, ed. by Catherine Chermayeff, Harry N Abrams Inc, 2000

SELECTED TEACHING & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Photo/Work: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, Sasha Wold, Aperture Magazine, 2020
American Photography: 35, AI-AP, 2020
WOMEN: The National Geographic Image Collection, 2019
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Exhibition Catalog, 2018
50 Years of New York Magazine, 2017
Fotorelief, Exhibition Catalog, 2016
Exit.No. 49: Autobiography, 2013
WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, Exhibiton Catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, 2012
Photographs, The New York Times and Aperture Foundation, 2011
Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol II, Humble Arts Foundation, 2010
Au Feminin: Women Photographing Women 1849-2009, Exhibition Catalogue, Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 2009
SP: Land, Sea, Air, Catalogue 2008
Center of Photography at Woodstock, Catalogue 2008
Portfolio: New York Photography Festival, Exhibition Catalogue, 2008
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, edited by DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2008
Act of Faith: On Faith, Conflict, Ecstasy and Excess, Noorderlicht Fotomanifestatie, Idea Books, 2007
Land in zicht: The World According to Vingboons in the 17th C., Exhibition Catalogue, Waanders Uitgevers, Nationaal Archief, 2007
Dateline: Israel, Exhibition Catalogue, Yale, 2007
New Art-New York: Reflections of the Human Condition, Exhibition Catalogue 2005
Recontres de la Photographie, Exhibition Catalogue, Actes Sud, 2005
Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, Exhibition Catalogue, NPG 2005
Society of Publication Designers Photography and Illustration, Catalogue, 2004
American Photography 20, Amilius Inc., 2004
Because I’m Worth It, book, poem by Paula Bennett and text by Carol Hamilton et al., Assouline Press, 2004
Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty, Exhibition Catalogue, Sandy Alexander Inc., 2004
Enough; World Press Photo Catalogue, Mets and Schilt, 2003
Fashion Photography Now, ed. by Catherine Chermayeff, Harry N Abrams Inc, 2000

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Morrisroe, Patricia, “Annie Leibovitz, the Un-Fashion Photographer”, New York Times, November 2021
Tracy, Abigail, “‘Right Now All I Want Is a Healthy Baby”: Former Congresswoman Katie Hill is Ready for her Next Chapter” , Vanity Fair, October 2021
Rich, Katey, “Amanda Seyfried’s Golden Age”, Vanity Fair, February 2021
Ologunudu, Folasade, “In Judas and the Black Messiah, Shaka King Tells Fred Hampton’s Story in Vivid Color”, CULTURED Magazine, February 2021
Read, Bridget, “The Nightmare Share”, The CUT, February 2021
Seidel, Stephanie “Genesis Tramaine Share Survival Strategies with Curator Stephanie Seidel”, CULTURED Magazine, December 2020
Specter, Emma, “The View from Northern Pennsylvania on Election Day”, Vogue, November 2020
Specter, Emma, “Inside the Pennsylvania Bakery Whose ‘Cookie Count’ Called the Last 3 Elections”, Vogue, November 2020
Specter, Emma, “How These First-Time Poll Workers are Fighting for Democracy”, Vogue, October 2020
Carlos, Marjon “Mary J Blige Proves Staying in Power is All About Reinvention, Self-Possession and a Little Two-Step”, CULTURED Magazine, September 2020
Carroll, E. Jean, “Two Women, Two Breasts, Two Decisions”, The Atlantic, September 2020
Reilley, Katie and Ball, Molly, “As the School Year Approaches, Education May Become the Pandemic’s Latest Casualty”, TIME Magazine, July 2020
Siegel, Jacob “The Prophet: Tragedy transformed Devora Halberstam into New York City’s most outspoken expert on anti-Semitic crime”, Tablet Magazine, January 2020
Glamour, “Meet the 2019 Glamour Women of the Year”, Glamour Magazine, October 2019
Caplan-Bricker, Nora “Hannah Gadsby on Why Men Should Be More Ladylike”, GQ Magazine, October 2019
Ackerman, Elliot, A New Generation Enlists for a War Older Than They Are, TIME Magazine, October 2019
Hanlong, Greg and Aradillas, Elaine, “Jeffery Epstein’s Accusers Speak Out About Abuse and Hope to Inspire Others”, People Magazine, October 2019
Bullock, Maggie “The 2019 Vanity Fair Best-Dressed List”, Vanity Fair Magazine, September 2019
New Yorker, “Wangechi Mutu’s Female Figures Grace The MET’s Façade”, The New Yorker’s “This Week”, September 2019
FitzSimons, Amanda, “How ‘The View’ Became the Most Important Political TV Show in America”, New York Times Magazine, May 2019
Bhattacharji, Alex, “Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us Was Designed to Inspire Change”, Town & Country, May 2019

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Press

Jan	2022	"Expanded Understandings: Gillian Laub Interviewed by Katy Diamond Hamer," - BOMB Magazine
Jan	2022	"Gillian Laub Gets Us Through the Holiday Season With “Family Matters”," - Interview Magazine
Jan	2022	"NYC photographer shows how the personal gets political," - The Jerusalem Post
Dec	2021	"20 Best Art Books of 2021," - Brooklyn Rail
Dec	2021	"Gillian Laub’s Divided House Is Still Standing. What About Yours?," - New York Times
Dec	2021	"Gillian Laub Captures Sad Yet Familiar Familial Fracturing at ICP," - Art&Object
Dec	2021	"This photographer’s bold images are intimate explorations of what it means to be family," - The Washington Post
Dec	2021	"TIME's 20 Best Photobooks of 2021," - TIME Magazine
Dec	2021	"Favorite Photobooks of 2021," - LensCulture
Dec	2021	"Gillian Laub, Family Matters at ICP," - Collector Daily
Dec	2021	"Photographer Gillian Laub exposes her family ties and turmoil in the Trump era," - Times of Israel
Dec	2021	"41 of the Year’s Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books," - The Strategist
Nov	2021	"Editors’ Picks: 7 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week," - Artnet
Nov	2021	"Our 33 Favorite Photobooks by Women and Non-binary Photographers in 2021," - The Luupe
Nov	2021	"Family Love and Politics in the Age of Trump and Beyond," - Hyperallergic
Nov	2021	"Exploring America's Political Divisions Through Family Photos," - Blind Magazine
Nov	2021	"Gillian Laub’s “Family Matters” Presents an All-American Family, Like it or Not," - Cultured
Nov	2021	"How to Photograph Annie Leibovitz," - New York Times
Nov	2021	"Gillian Laub with Jean Dykstra," - The Brooklyn Rail
Nov	2021	"What to Read: 4 New Coffee Table Books," - The New York Times
Oct	2021	"Family Matters," - Tablet Magazine
Oct	2021	"Legendary Photographer Gillian Laub Dissects Her Photo Book Family Matters," - The Drew Barrymore Show
Oct	2021	"Gillian Laub on Writing Book “Family Matters” After Documenting Family for 20 Years," - The View
Oct	2021	"Gillian Laub and Diana Markosian at the ICP — family albums," - Financial Times
Oct	2021	"Gillian Laub on Her Most Personal Project Yet," - WWD
Oct	2021	"When the 2016 Election Tore a Photographer’s Family Apart, She Decided to Document It," - Katie Couric
Oct	2021	"Politics Threatened to Divide One Family. This Book of Photos Brought Them Together," - Maria Shriver
Sept	2021	"Photographer Gillian Laub Sees Her Family Portraits as a “Microcosm of America”," - Vogue
Sept	2021	"Gillian Laub's photos reveal America's divisions through her own family," - i-D VICE
Sept	2021	"In This House We Believe Family Trumps Politics," - Common Sense with Bari Weiss
Sept	2021	"Gillian Laub’s Family Matters Explores The Tension Between Art and Privilege," - W Magazine
Sept	2021	"Photographer Gillian Laub explores America's political divisions through the lens of her own family," - Creative Boom
Sept	2021	"We Are Family," - Bal Harbour
Sept	2021	"How intimate family photos helped to bridge a Trump-era divide," - Forward
Sept	2021	"Laub Turned her Camera into a Mediator During the Trump Years," - New York Magazine
Sept	2021	"Gillian Laub Reckons with her Parent's Trump Adoration ," - Vanity Fair
Sept	2021	"Gillian Laub Explores Her Family’s Political Dramas," - The New Yorker
Dec	2020	"Top 100 Photos of 2020," - TIME Magazine
Dec	2020	"Picturing Race: Potent photos of racially segregated proms in Georgia," - Huck
Nov	2020	"A Project Almost 20 Years In The Making Tells The Story of What’s Happening in Georgia," - BuzzFeed
Nov	2020	"Southern Rites - A Conversation with Gillian Laub," - Vogue Italia
Nov	2020	"The Enduring Relevance of Gillian Laub's Southern Rites ," - The British Journal of Photography
Nov	2020	"Picturing Race in Georgia over Two Decades," - Cultured
Nov	2020	"'Southern Rites' Accessibly Explores Issues of Systematic Racism," - Retriever
Oct	2020	"Gillian Laub's photos of segregated proms are still relevant in 2020," - i-D VICE
Jun	2020	"10 Movies About Racism And Black Identity That You Can Stream In Canada," - Huffpost
Feb	2020	"'Southern Rites' at Jewish Museum," - Oregon Artswatch
Jan	2020	"'Southern Rites' photos tackle racial tensions, inequality," - Lake Oswego Review
Jul	2019	"Diet Coke Is Shedding Its Label to Make Room for Stories About Identity and Resilience," - Adweek
Apr	2019	"Thank you, 72 - Joseph Sullivan and Gillian Laub ," - All Ways Forward, Wisconsin Alumni Association
Feb	2019	"Radio Chipstone: "Southern Rites"," - Milwaukee NPR (WUWM 98.7)
Feb	2019	"Gillian Laub on portraying and re-portraying in "Southern Rites"," - Tone Madison
Jan	2019	"Southbound: capturing the complexities of the US southern states - in pictures," - The Guardian
Jan	2019	"Tragic Segregation," - Ithmus
Nov	2018	"National Geographic: Best photos of 2018," - National Geographic
Oct	2018	"Gillian Laub: Pioneering Southern Rites at Lamont," - Artscope
Aug	2018	"What Do Photographers Owe Their Subjects? Four Photographers Weigh In," - Artsy
July	2018	"Divisions Run Deep: Racial Segregation As Official Policy," - Art Agency Partners
Jan	2017	"Fusion's 'As American As' campaign gets some American-style Censorship," - AdStasher
Winter	2016	"Tribal Skins," - Tablet
Nov	2016	"Gillian Laub’s Take on the Allure of Photography," - TIME Lightbox
Aug	2016	"These Clever Mobile Ads Challenge People's Perceptions of Black Men and Police," - Adweek
Aug	2016	"Whiteness and Race, Between the Storms," - The New York Times LENS
Jun	2016	"Bringing HBO Documentary 'Southern Rites' to Otisville Prison," - Tribeca Film Institute
Dec	2015	"Photobooks of the Year, Part II: 24 Personal Favorites," - LensCulture
Dec	2015	"Best Photobooks of the Year: 2015 ," - American Photo
Nov	2015	"The Best Photography Books of the Year ," - Smithsonian
Nov	2015	"TIME Picks the Best Photobooks of 2015," - TIME
Oct	2015	"Gillian Laub \| #ICPtalks," - ICP
Oct	2015	"Documenting one American High School’s Racial Segregation," - Dazed and Confused
Oct	2015	"A Conversation with Gillian Laub," - Tablet Magazine
Sept	2015	"Eight of The Best Female Photographers On Instagram ," - Marie Claire
July	2015	"Modern Day Racial Segregation and White on Black Murder: Gillian Laub’s ‘Southern Rites’," - ASX
Aug	2015	"'Southern Rites' by Gillian Laub," - The Boston Globe
June	2015	"“Gillian Laub: Southern Rites” and “LaToya Ruby Frazier: Selected Works”," - The Agora Culture
June	2015	"U.S. Town Once Held Segregated Proms," - CNN
June	2015	"Gillian Laub, Southern Rites," - The Brooklyn Rail
June	2015	"Documenting One of the Last Segregated Proms in Georgia," - i-D VICE
June	2015	"Art: Gillian Laub," - The New Yorker
June	2015	"How a Photographer Helped a Georgia Town Desegregate Its Proms," - Hyperalleric
June	2015	" HBO’s ‘Southern Rites’ Documents Segregated Prom In Ga. Town," - NPR
June	2015	"Proms in Black and White," - Le Monde
June	2015	"Gillian Laub, Southern Rites @Benrubi," - Collector Daily
May	2015	"Review: ‘Southern Rites,’ an HBO Documentary on the Killing of a Young Black Man in Rural Georgia," - NY Times
May	2015	"Review: Two Documentaries '1971' on PBS, 'Southern Rites' from HBO," - The Los Angeles Times
May	2015	"A Tale of Two Proms ," - The Wall Street Journal
May	2015	"Southern Rites: A Reminder of the Parallels of Prejudice ," - Advocate
May	2015	"Watch John Legend Talk About Modern Segregation with Jon Stewart ," - Mic
May	2015	"Gillian Laub Tackles Race in HBO's 'Southern Rites'," - The Burton Wire
May	2015	"Arise Entertainment 360 with Film Director Gillian Laub," - Arise Entertainment 360
May	2015	"John Legend and Gillian Laub talk 'Southern Rites' and Racial Bias," - AOL Build
May	2015	"Times Talk with Gillian Laub and John Legend," - The NY Times: Times Talks
May	2015	"John Legend and Gillian Laub Team Up for an HBO Documentary," - ABC, Good Morning America
May	2015	"Prom, Killing and Race in the South," - MSNBC, The Cycle
May	2015	"Segregated Prom Once a Tradition in This Southern Town," - CNN, Tonight With Don Lemon
May	2015	"Gillian Laub's 'Southern Rites' Gets Beyond Black and White," - CBC Radio, Q on CBC Radio
May	2015	"John Legend Discusses 'Southern Rites'," - Live! With Kelly and Michael
May	2015	"Southern Rites and Racial Tensions," - WNYC
May	2015	"Interview with MSNBC," - MSNBC, Melissa Haris-Perry
May	2015	"Southern Rites Interview with Georgia Public Broadcasting," - Georgia Public Broadcasting
May	2015	"Southern Rites Interview ," - TV Once, News One Now with Roland Martin
May	2015	"Southern Rites Interview with Sirius XM," - SiriusXM, The Agenda
May	2015	"Documentary Explores the Recent History of Segregated Proms & Uncovers a Murder," - Clutch
May	2015	"John Legend: 'It's hard being a white male conservative in America. They shall overcome'," - Breitbart
May	2015	"These Photographs Helped Integrate Proms in Montgomery, Georgia ," - The Guardian
May	2015	"HBO's Southern Rites Screening in NYC," - A Belle in Brooklyn
May	2015	"Southern Rites - Not Just Another Story About A White Man Killing An Unarmed Black Man ," - Chicago Defender
May	2015	"Photographer found a lot more than racism while working on segregated prom project," - NY Times, Women in the World
May	2015	"The Great Disconnect: What Segregation Looks Like in 'Post Racial' America ," - CreativeTime Reports
May	2015	"Justin Patterson Is Another Dead, Unarmed, Young Black Man: Why Don't You Know His Name ," - Alternet
May	2015	"Photographer Profile – Gillian Laub: ‘There were many times I was threatened," - AI-AP
May	2015	"John Legend Needs You To Know Why This Young Man Is Dead," - New Republic
May	2015	"A Segregated Prom, a Racially Charged Murder and Questions About Racism," - The Root
May	2015	"Eye-Opening ‘Southern Rites’ Documentary Explores Two Counties That Have Been Racially Divided for Years," - Huffington Post, Black Voices
May	2015	"John Legend lends his voice to 'Southern Rites' documentary about racial bias," - Daily News
May	2015	"HBO Announces Premiere of 'Southern Rites' - Feature Doc Examining Race Relations in Southeast Georgia," - Indie Wire
May	2015	"Southern Rites: A Small Town's Inability to Acknowledge Its Own Racism," - Jezebel
May	2015	"A Georgia Town’s First Desegregated Prom and the Killing That Further Divided Its People," - Mississippi NAACP
May	2015	"The Director of ‘Southern Rights’ Explains How Brave Students Made Segregated Proms A Thing Of The Past," - MTV News
May	2015	"HBO's Southern Rites Reveals a Mother's Heartbreak and a Town's Dark Secret," - People Magazine
May	2015	"A Georgia Town’s First Desegregated Prom and the Killing that Further Divided Its People," - The Daily Beast
May	2015	" John Legend shares why he was moved by ‘Southern Rites’," - Rollingout
May	2015	"Interview: Southern Rites Director Gillian Laub ," - Amy Poehler's Smart Girls
May	2015	"10 Moving Portraits Tell The Story Of Segregated Prom In The South," - Refinery29
May	2015	"John Legend Discusses Southern Rites," - The Daily Show
May	2015	"What segregation looks like in “post-racial” America," - Salon
May	2015	"John Legend Contributes Song to HBO Documentary Southern Rites," - Paste Magazine
May	2015	"Powerful Photos Helped Desegregate a Prom in Georgia, but Racial Tensions Endure," - Slate
May	2015	"A New Documentary Explores the Recent History of Segregated Proms," - The Cut, New York Magazine
May	2015	"‘Southern Rites’: TV Review," - The Hollywood Reporter
May	2015	"Southern Rites: The Heartbreaking Story of Justin Patterson’s Death," - TIME
May	2015	"Preview: From a Divided Georgia Prom, HBO's 'Southern Rites' captures the Struggle to Face Race," - Arts ATL
May	2015	"Gillian Laub's 'Southern Rites' debuts on HBO tonight," - Artbook
May	2015	"'Southern Rites': HBO Doc Tackles Georgia Race Relations ," - Tea & Breakfast
May	2015	"PopPolitics: HBO’s ‘Southern Rites’ Reflects ‘Pre-Scripted’ Notions of Race ," - Variety
May	2015	"Review: HBO’s ‘Southern Rites’ Takes An Honest Look At The Murder Of Justin Patterson," - Vibe
May	2015	"A New York Photographer Documents a Still-Segregated Southern Town for HBO," - The Village Voice
May	2015	"Southern Rites Review," - We Got This Covered
May	2015	"The Yes List: An Unflinching Look at Race and Murder in a Small Southern Town," - Details
May	2015	"Separate Proms Are Just a Starting Point for HBO Film on Race," - Education Week
May	2015	"John Legend premieres HBO 'Southern Rites' documentary in New York City," - Examiner
May	2015	"HOT DOCS ‘15: Gillian Laub attempts to make race relations with Southern Rites," - Cinefiles
May	2015	"Review: 'Southern Rites'," - Shakefire
Apr	2015	"Review: The Aftermath of Equality on Southern Rites," - Time
Apr	2015	"HOT DOCS 2015 #1: Pre-fest Reviews, Part One," - Movie Pie
Apr	2015	"HOT DOCS 2015 > Southern Rites," - Now Toronto
Feb	2015	"Women in the Frame," - The Royal Photographic Society
Feb	2015	"For John Legend, love and social protest make for an 'interesting mix'," - The Los Angeles Times
Nov	2014	"20 Emerging Artists to Watch in Film & Video," - PDN
Mar	2014	"14 Female Photographers You Should Know," - Murabayashi, Allen: Photoshelter Blog
Feb	2014	"The Beautiful--Yet Complicated--Forms of Love," - Curtis, Elissa: MSNBC
Feb	2014	"Where the World's Greatest Photographers Go To Get Away," - NY Times
Jan	2014	"Photographing Ariel Sharon," - Tablet Magazine
Dec	2013	"Photo Projects That Made For A Better 2013," - Jacobs, Sarah: Photoshelter Blog
Aug	2013	"A Perfect Daughter: Gender Reassignment by Gillian Laub," - Reznik, Eugene: TIME Lightbox
Sept	2013	"John Legend ventures into film with documentary on segregated proms," - MSN Entertainment
May	2012	"Last Dance: American Proms by Gillian Laub ," - TIME Lightbox
Mar	2012	"'Fifty Shades' of Frenzy," - TIME Lightbox
Mar	2013	"Face Of The Day," - The Dish
Mar	2012	"On Passover, Celebrating Life and Ritual in a Jewish Family," - Rosenberg, David: Slate Behold
Dec	2012	"How We See Love and Family," - Glamour
Nov	2011	"Thanksgiving Tradition: Gillian Laub's Turkey Day," - TIME Lightbox
Mar	2010	"La Infancia Como Inspiración," - Sendra, David: Yodona
Oct	2011	"Tel Aviv Beach: One Photographer's Enduring Oasis," - TIME Lightbox
Aug	2009	"Bola de Cristal," - Carneiro, João: Expresso
Jan	2010	"The Decade of Blurred Boundaries," - PDN Magazine Issue 1
Dec	2010	"The Top 10 Everything of 2010," - Duff, Craig: Take Care. TIME
Jun	2009	"Segregation at the School Prom," - Doyle, Leonard: The Sunday Telegraph
May	2009	"Showcase: A Prom Divided," - Koppel, Niko: The New York Times
May	2009	"CNN Headline," - Prime News
May	2009	"Interview on The Joan Hamburg Show (WOR)," - Radio
Sept	2008	"Interview with Gillian Laub," - Leadel
Nov	2007	"In the Middle East: The Tenacity of Hope," - Freeman, Melanie Stetson: The Christian Science Monitor
Nov	2007	"Art," - Roberts, Bryony: Monthly Reviews of Books Worth Reading, Boldtype, Issue #49
Oct	2007	"And we both say ‘hello’ with the word 'peace'," - Levac, Alex: Haaretz
Jun	2007	"Caught in the Crossfire," - West, Naomi: Telegraph Magazine
Aug	2007	"Family Life: Photographer Focus," - Schlatter, N. Elizabeth: Focus Magazine, Issue 13
Jun	2007	"Putting Our Eyes to Work," - Meyers, William: The New York Sun
May	2007	"Conflict Exposed, Israel & Palestine," - Clendaiel, Morgan: Good Magazine
Apr	2007	"Den raa bilden av krigets vardag," - Expressen, Sweden
May	2007	"Envisager La Paix," - French Vogue, pg. 62
Apr	2007	"Unflinching Look at Israel," - The Times
Apr	2007	"Caught in the Moment," - Jerusalem Post
Apr	2007	"Faces of Conflict," - Lord, Jade: The British Journal of Photography Volume 154 #7631
Apr	2007	"Recording Hate’s Carnage," - The Post Star
Apr	2007	"Broken Bodies, Survival, & Hope," - Herald Press
Apr	2007	"The Visible Costs of War," - Goldman, Adam: Associated Press
Apr	2007	"Photography book takes unflinching look at victims of Arab-Israeli conflict," - International Herald Tribune
Apr	2007	"Snap Judgments of Israel, More Than Words Can Say," - Cotter, Holland: The New York Times
Apr	2007	"The Go-Between," - Spence, Rebecca: Forward
Apr	2007	"Testimony, by Gillian Laub," - Bachman, Rabbi Andy: Ideas
Apr	2007	"Libros y Exposiciones," - Sophot,
Mar	2007	"Weekend Update," - Robinson, Walter: Art on Paper Magazine
Spr	2007	"Gillian Laub Testimony," - Foam Magazine #10/Stories
Mar	2007	"Israele Salam Shalom," - iO donna, pg. 115
Mar	2007	"Book Learning," - LaSala, Anthony: PDN
Mar	2007	"Hardcover Debuts," - Beem, Edgar Allen: PDN
Dec	2007	"Gillian Laub’s Best Shot," - Benedictus, Leo: The Guardian, pg. 27
Spr	2006	"Beyond Wounds: A Portfolio of Gillian Laub," - Guilt and Pleasure, N2, Fight Issue
		"Testimonianze," - Portfolio 07 Un Anno di Foto, pg 98-105
	2005	"American Photography 21," - collection of imagery, pg. 118 & 119
	2006	"Hindsight: The Evolution of the AP Annual," - Stop Smiling Issue 29
May	2005	"Photo Annual 2005, Nikon Storytellers Award," - PDN, pg. 75
Oct	2004	"Sulla Stessa Terra: Israele & Palestina," - Barzini, Chiara: Flair Magazine
Sept	2004	"Shooting Coexistence," - Leibovitz, Liel: The Jewish Week
Sum	2004	"Fans," - COLORS
Jul	2004	"The Maimed," - Rieff, David, interviews by Abu Aker, Khaled: The New York Times Magazine
Jan	2004	"The Arbus Effect," - Rexer, Lyle: Art on Paper, Vol. 8, No. 3, pg. 66,
	2003	"Gillian Laub," - Dykstra, Jean: Fotophile, Number 46
May	2003	"Focus On: Gillian Laub," - Art on Paper
Jun	2001	"The Family as Muse," - Belasco, Daniel: The Jewish Week

News | Events

PAST EVENTS

In Conversation: Gillian Laub and Jeffrey Mccune	Oct 13 - 6:00 PM	George Eastman Museum Rochester, NY, 14607
Eddie Adams Workshop - Keynote Address	Oct 7 - 7:00 PM	Eddie Adams Workshop Jeffersonville, NY, 12748
Southern Rites at The George Eastman Museum	Jun 30 - 12:30 PM	George Eastman Museum Rochester, NY, 14607
Artist Talk at Massachusetts College of Art and Design	Oct 25 - 2:00 PM	Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston, MA, 02115
Atlanta Contemporary: Southern Rites Exhibition Opening	Sep 22 - 5:00 PM	Atlanta Contemporary Atlanta, GA, 30318
Catchlight Visual Storytelling Summit: Healing the Trust Crisis	Apr 19 - 2:30 PM	Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco San Francisco, CA, 94107
Connect Beyond Festival featuring Gillian Laub	Apr 12 - 11:30 AM	Asheville Art Museum Asheville, NC, 28801
Sunday of Strong Women 2022	Mar 20 - 10:30 AM	JCC - Taub Campys Tenafly, NJ, 07670
La Luz Workshop, Talking Photography: Sasha Woolf in conversation with Gillian Laub	Dec 9 - 6:30 PM
Paris Photo - “Family Matters" book signing	Nov 13 - 3:30 PM	Grand Palais Ephemere Paris, IDF, 75007
Gillian Laub in Conversation with Ilana Glazer	Nov 3 - 5:30 PM	Creator House New York, NY, 10010
Gillian Laub and Dr. Orna Guralnik on “Family Matters”	Oct 27 - 7:00 PM	International Center of Photography New York, NY
Benefactor Circle: Gillian Laub Exhibition Tour	Oct 26 - 11:00 AM	International Center of Photography New York, NY, 10002
"Southern Rites" Traveling Exhibition and Artist Talk	Oct 28 - 7:00 PM	University of Maryland Baltimore Counry Baltimore, MD, 21250
Hastings Against Racial Injustice	Jun 28 - 6:30 PM	Draper Park Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, 10706
"Southern Rites" Traveling Exhibition and Screening	Feb 5 - 5:00 PM	Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education Portland, OR, 97209
"Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South" Exhibition, Screening and Artist Lecture	Jan 28 - 6:30 PM	Hunter Museum of Art Chattanooga, TN, 37403
Visual Storytelling at Photo IS:RAEL International Photography Festival	Dec 6 - 12:00 PM	Photo IS:RAEL Tel Aviv
"Southern Rites" Screening and Artist Talk at Chazen Museum of Art	Apr 16 - 6:00 PM	Chazen Museum of Art Madison, WI, 53706
"Southern Rites" Traveling Exhibition at Chazen Museum of Art	Jan 25 - 5:30 PM	Chazen Museum of Art Madison, WI, 53706

Contact

STUDIO

New York, NY
M: 917 741 9186
gillianlaub@gmail.com

GALLERY

Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10022
T: 212 888 6007
info@benrubigallery.com
Benrubi Gallery Website

COMMISSIONS

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