Gillian Laub (b.1975, 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, and a desire to create a dialogue between apparent enemies. This work is comprised of portraits and testimonies from Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, Lebanese, and Palestinians all directly and indirectly affected by the complicated geopolitical context in which they lived. 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 in May 2015. 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 of 2015 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 Laub has been interviewed on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, Good Morning America, Times Talks and numerous others. She recently was honored as a NYFA Fellow in Photography. Laub contributes to many publications including TIME and The New York Times Magazine. Her work is collected and exhibited internationally.
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
Film Features 2015 “Southern Rites,” HBO, May 2015
Film Shorts 2016 “Rock of Ages performed by Aretha Franklin” TIME 2015 “Camouflaged Identity,” TIME 2014 “Alexis,” People Magazine 2013 “A Perfect Daughter,” TIME 2013 “Fifty Shades Frenzy,” TIME 2012 “Romance,” TIME 2012 “Four Generations” 2012 “How Dogs Help Veterans Cope with PTSD,” TIME 2012 “Take Care,” Mediastorm 2009 “A Prom Divided,” New York Times Magazine
Select Exhibitions 2022 “Southern Rites”, Asheville Art Museum, Ashville NC 2020 “Southern Rites”, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore MD “Southern Rites”, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, Portland OR “Southbound” Hunter Museum of American Art 2019 “Southbound”, Duke University, Durham, NC “Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection”, ICP Museum, New York, NY “Modern Families” Arts Westchester Gallery, White Plains, NY “Southern Rites” Traveling Exhibition, Chazen Museum of Arts, Madison, WI 2018 “Southbound”, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art “Southern Rites”, Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH 2017 “Showing (work x family), Framingham State University, MA 2016 “Feast for the Eyes”, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY “WE: AMEricans”, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY “Group Show 48: Winter Pictures,” Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY 2015 “Southern Rites,” Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY “Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2015,” National Portrait Gallery, London, UK “The Rights of Summer,” Ripe Art Gallery, New York, NY “The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2015,” Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN 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. “Going Out,” 511 Gallery, New York, NY 2011 "FOUR Generations," LOOK3 Festival Projections, Charlottesville, VA “The Collectors Guide to New Art Photography,” Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY "Fuck Pretty," Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “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 “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 "Portraiture,” Getty Images Satellite Show, New York Photo Festival 2007 “An American Life,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY “Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY “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 “Human Cost of Terror,” Pikto Photo Gallery, Toronto, CA “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 “New Art, New York: Reflections of the Human Condition,” Hangar 7, Salzburg, Austria “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 “Common Ground,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY “Water Water Everywhere,” Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY “Terrorvision,” Exit Art, New York, NY “Beyond Compare: Women Photographers on Beauty,” Presented by Dove, Toronto, Canada (Canadian Traveling Exhibition) 2003 “By the Sea,” Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY “Flash: Swimsuits & Sports,” Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA “Enough,” FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands “CMYK: Contemporary Color,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY "Central Park 150th year Anniversary," The Arsenal, New York 2002 “Advance Notice,” International Center of Photography, New York, NY “Sexuality and Voyeurism,” Wayne State University, Detroit, MI “At Play,” SoHo Triad Fine Arts, New York, NY 2001 “Summer Saloon IV,” Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY “Identity in Relationships,” Makor Gallery, New York, NY “Family,” Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY 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 and Honors
2020 PDN Photo Annual, Editorial Award Recipient 2020 American Photography 26, Award Recipient 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Photography Grant 2019 Alice Austen House Award for the Advancement of Photography 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 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 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 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, Selected Exhibitor American Photography 21, Award Recipient PDN Nikon Story Tellers Award 2004 American Photography 20, Award Recipient 2003 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, Award Participant
Monographs 2015 Southern Rites; Gillian Laub, Damiani 2007 Testimony: Photographs by Gillian Laub; (hardcover) Aperture Press 2007 Testimoni: Fotografie di Gillian Laub; (Italian Edition, hardcover) Contrasto
Books and Catalogues Photo/Work: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice, Sasha Wolf, Aperture, 2020 American Photography: 35, Amilus Inc., 2020 “WOMEN: The National Geographic Image Collection”, National Geographic, 2019 “Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South”, Halsey Institute, 2018 50 Years of New York Magazine, 2017 Fotorelief, Exhibition Book, Fotorelief, 2016 Exit.No. 49: Autobiography, 2013 Unscrolled: 54 Writers and Artists Wrestle with the Torah. Edited by Roger Bennett, 2013 WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, Exhibition 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 SPD: 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 and Speaking Engagements
Annenberg Space for Photography, CA The Aperture Gallery, NY Columbia College, IL Dartmouth College, NH The International Center of Photography, NY, Groundbreaking Women in Photography The International Center of Photography, NY, Collaborative Portrait Practice for the Documentary Photographer The International Center of Photography, NY, Southern Rites Iris Nights Lecture; Everything is Personal. Tales of Intimate Engagements The Jewish Funders Network, CA The Jewish Museum, NY Saul and Gladys Gwirtzman Lecture Fashion Institute of Technology, NY National Geographic Photo Seminar, Washington, DC New York Photo Festival, NY New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan Library, NY New York SUNY Purchase, NY The Photographers Gallery, UK Pop Up Magazine – Multi City Tour Rhode Island School of Design, RI Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, NM] School of Visual Arts – MPS Photography Lecture University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Yale University, CT, Thread Conference
Interviews “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin dead at age 76”, Gillian Laub and Kia Pollack, CNN, August 2018 “Times Talk with Gillian Laub and John Legend,” The New York Times, NY, May 2015 “John Legend and Gillian Laub talk ‘Southern Rites’ and Racial Bias,” AOL Build, AOL, 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 “John Legend Discusses ‘Southern Rites,’” Live! With Kelly and Michael, May 2015 MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry, May 2015 “Arise Entertainment 360 with Film Director Gillian Laub,” Arise Entertainment 360, May 2015 “Gillian Laub’s ‘Southern Rites’ Gets Beyond Black and White,” CBC Radio, Q on CBC Radio, May 2015 “Southern Rites and Racial Tensions,” WNYC, May 2015 SiriusXM, The Agenda, May 2015 Georgia Public Broadcasting, May 2015 “’Southern Rites,’” TV Once, News One Now with Roland Martin, May 2015 “U.S. Town Once Held Segregated Proms,” CNN, June 2015
Select Press TIME Magazine, “Top 100 Photos of 2020”, December 2020 Huck, “Picturing Race: Potent Photos of Racially Segregated Proms in Georgia”, Dec 2020 Buzzfeed “A Project Almost 20 Years in the Making Tells the Story of What’s Happening in Georgia”, November 2020 Vogue Italia, “Southern Rites – A Conversation with Gillian Laub”, November 2020 British Journal of Photography, “The Enduring Relevance of Gillian Laub’s Southern Rites”, November 2020 Cultured, “Picturing Race in Georgia Over Two Decades”, November 2020 Retriever, “Southern Rites Accessibility Explores Issues of Systematic Racism”, Nov2020 i-D VICE, “Gillian Laub’s photos of segregated proms are still relevant in 2020”, Octo 2020 Huffpost, “10 Movies About Racism and Black Identity That You Can Stream In Canada", June 2020 Oregon Artswatch, “Southern Rites at the Jewish Museum”, February 2020 Lake Oswego Review, “Southern Rites’ photos tackle racial tensions, inequality” January 2020 Malik Anderson, “Chazen Screens ‘Southern Rites’ UW Alum’s Documentary on Racially Charged Murder”. April 2019 Joseph Sullivan, “Thank You, 72 Podcast: Conversation between Joseph Sullivan and Gillian Laub”, April 2019 Gianofer Fields, “Radio Chipstone: Southern Rites”, WUWM 89.7, Milwaukee’s NPR, February 2019 Henry Solo, “Gillian Laub on portraying and re-portraying in Southern Rites”, Tone Magazine, February 2019 Michael Muckian, “Tragic Segregation”, Isthmus Magazine, January 2019 Susan Goldberg, “Best Photographs 2018”, National Geographic, November 2018 Alina Cohen, “What Do Photographers Owe Their Subjects?”, Artsy, August 2018 Maya Benton “Division Runs Deep: Racial Segregation as Official Policy”, Art Agency Partners, July 2018 G., Sylvia, “Fusion’s ‘As American As’ campaign gets some American-style censorship”, AdStasher, January 2017 Newhouse, Alana, “Tribal Skins”, Tablet, Winter 2016 Laurent, Olivier, “Gillian Laub’s Take on the Allure of Photography”, TIME Lightbox, November 2016 O’Brien, Kyle, “Fusion champions diversity of Americans in latest campaign”, The DRUM, November 2016 Lechner, Ido, “Cinematic Tech Shifts The Story As You Change Your Perspective”, PSFK, September 2016 Swant, Marty, “These Clever Moble Ads Challenge People’s Perceptions of Black Men and Police”, Adweek, August 2016 Berger, Maurice, “Whiteness and Race, Between the Storms”, The New York Times Lens, August 2016 “Bringing HBO Documentary ‘Southern Rites’ to Otisville Prison,” Tribeca Film Institute, June 2016 “Photobooks of the Year, Part II: 24 Personal Favorites,” LensCulture, December 2015 “Best Photobooks of the Year: 2015,” American Photo, December 2015 “The Best Photography Books of the Year,” Smithsonian, November 2015 “TIME Picks the Best Photobooks of 2015,” TIME Lightbox, November 2015 Kupfer, Paula, “Gillian Laub at ICP,” International Center of Photography, October 2015 “Documenting One American High School’s Racial Segregation,” Dazed and Confused, October 2015 “A Conversation with Gillian Laub,” Tablet Magazine, October 2015 Redfern, Corinne, “Eight of the Best Female Photographers on Instagram,” Marie Claire, September 2015 Gardner, Jan, “‘Southern Rites’ by Gillian Laub“, The Boston Globe, August 2015 Campbell, Owen, “Modern Day Racial Segregation and White on Black Murder: Gillian Laub’s ‘Southern Rites,’” American Suburb X, July 2015 Johnson, Daniel, “Gillian Laub: ‘Southern Rites’ and ‘LaToya Ruby Frazier: Selected Works,’” The Agora Culture, June 2015 Reid, Hillary, “Gillian Laub Southern Rites” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2015 “Art: Gillian Laub,” The New Yorker, Going’s on About Town, June 2015 Newell-Hanson, Alice, “Documenting one of the Last Segregated Proms in Georgia,” i-D Magazine, June 2015 Mallonee, Laura, “How a Photographer Helped a Georgia Town Desegregate Its Prom,” Hyperallergic, June 2015 Lin Erdman, Shelby, “HBO’s ‘Southern Rites’ Documents Segregated Prom in Ga. Town,” WABE, Atlanta’s NPR Station, June 2015 Le Bars, Stephanie, “Proms in Black and White,” Le Monde France, June 2015 Knoblauch, Loring, “Gillian Laub, Southern Rites @ Benrubi,” Collector Daily, June 2015 Stanley, Alessandra, “Review: ‘Southern Rites,’ an HBO Documentary on the Killing of a Young Black Man in Rural Georgia,” The New York Times, May 2015 Meyers, William, “A Tale of Two Proms,” The Wall Street Journal, May 2015 Lloyd, Robert, “Review: Two Documentaries: ‘1971’ on PBS, ‘Southern Rites’ from HBO,” Los Angeles Times, May 2015 Ring, Trudy, “Southern Rites: A Reminder of the Parallels of Prejudice,” Advocate, May 2015 Beaudoin, Kate, “Watch John Legend Talk About Modern Segregation With Jon Stewart,” Mic, May 2015 Daniel, Christopher, “Gillian Laub Tackles Race in HBO’s ‘Southern Rites,’” The Burton Wire, May 2015 “Documentary Explores the Recent History of Segregated Proms & Uncovers a Murder,” Clutch, May 2015 Jones, Kipp, “John Legend: ‘It’s hard being a white male conservative in America. They shall overcome,’” Breitbart, May 2015 Spencer, Ruth, “These Photographs Helped Integrate Proms in Montgomery, Georgia,” The Guardian, May 2015 Lucas, Belle, “HBO’s Southern Rites Screening in NYC,” A Belle in Brooklyn, May 2015 Biakolo, Kovie, “Southern Rites – Not Just Another Story About A White Man Killing An Unarmed Black Man,” Chicago Defender, May 2015 Robb, Alice, “Photographer found a lot more than racism while working on segregated prom project,” The New York Times, Women in the World, May 2015 Laub, Gillian, “The Great Disconnect: What Segregation Looks Like in ‘Post Racial’ America,” Creative Time, Creative Time Reports, May 2015 Holloway, Kali, “Justin Patterson Is Another Dead, Unarmed, Young Black Man: Why Don’t You Know His Name?” Alternet, May 2015 Schonauer, David, “Photographer Profile – Gillian Laub: “There were many times that I was threatened,” AI AP, May 2015 Smith, Jamil, “John Legend Needs You To Know Why This Young Man is Dead,” The New Republic, May 2015 Cole, Harriette, “A Segregated Prom, a Racially Charged Murder and Questions About Racism,” The Root, May 2015 Workneh, Lilly, “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,” NY Daily News, May 2015 Obenson, Tambay A, “HBO Announces Premiere of ‘Southern Rites’ – Feature Doc Examining Race Relations in Southeast Georgia,” Indie Wire, May 2015 Shepherd, Julianne Escobedo, “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 Abber, Caitlin, “The Director of ‘Southern Rites’ Explains How Brave Students Made Segregated Proms a Thing of the Past,” MTV News, May 2015 John Legend on Live! With Kelly and Michael, May 2015 Dunlap, Tiare, “HBO’s Southern Rites Reveals a Mother’s Heartbreak and a Town’s Dark Secret,” People Magazine, May 2015 Stern, Marlow, “A Georgia Town’s First Desegregated Prom and the Killing That Further Divided Its People,” The Daily Beast, May 2015 Williams, Steven, “John Legend Shares Why He was Moved By ‘Southern Rites,’” Rollingout, May 2015 Wolfe, Clarke, “Interview: Southern Rites Director Gillian Laub,” Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, May 2015 “John Legend on The Daily Show,” The Daily Show with John Stewart, May 2015 Macmillen, Hayley, “10 Moving Portraits Tell the Story of Segregated Prom in the South,” Refinery29, 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 Rosenberg, David, “Powerful Photos Helped Desegregate a Prom in Georgia, but Racial Tensions Endure,” Slate, May 2015 Grigoriadis, Vanessa, “A New Documentary Explores the Recent History of Segregated Proms,” The Cut, New York Magazine, May 2015 Uhlich, Keith, “’Southern Rites’: TV Review,” The Hollywood Reporter, May 2015 “Southern Rites: The Heartbreaking Story of Justin Patterson’s Death,” Time Lightbox, May 2015 Farmer, Jim, “Preview: From a Divided Georgia Prom, HBO’s ‘Southern Rites’ Captures the Struggle to Face Race,” Arts ATL, May 2015 Reynolds, Cory, “Gillian Laub’s ‘Southern Rites’ Debuts on HBO Tonight,” Artbook, May 2015 Young, Tyler, “’Southern Rites:’ HBO Doc Tackles Georgia Race Relations,” Tea & Breakfast, May 2015 Johnson, Ted, “PopPolitics: HBO’s ‘Southern Rites’ Reflects ‘Pre-scripted’ Notions of Race,” Variety, May 2015 Golding, Shenequa, “Review: HBO’s ‘Southern Rites’ Takes an Honest Look at The Murder of Justin Patterson,” Vibe, May 2015 Zarum, Lara, “A New York Photographer Documents a Still-Segregated Southern Town for HBO,” The Village Voice, May 2015 Adler, Jordan, “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 Walsh, Mark, “Separate Proms Are Just a Starting Point for HBO Film on Race,” Education Week, May 2015 Simmons, Ken, “John Legend Premieres HBO ‘Southern Rites’ Documentary in New York City,” Examiner, May 2015 Jackson, Maria, “Review: ‘Southern Rites,’” Shakefire, May 2015 “HOT DOCS ’15: Gillian Laub attempts to make race relations with Southern Rites,” Cinefilles, May 2015 “Review: The Aftermath of Equality on Southern Rites” Time, April 2015 “HOT DOCS 2015 #1: Pre-fest Reviews, Part One,” Movie Pie, April 2015 “HOT DOCS 2015 > Southern Rites,” Now Toronto, April 2015 “Women in the Frame,” The Royal Photographic Society, February 2015 “For John Legend, love and social protest make for an ‘interesting mix,’” LA Times, February 2015 “Crossing into Motion: What it takes to make video a major part of your photography work,” American Photo on Campus, Summer 2015 “20 Emerging Artists to Watch in Film & Video,” PDN, November 2014 Murabayashi, Allen, "14 Female Photographers You Should Know," Photoshelter Blog, March 11, 2014 Curtis, Elissa, "The Beautiful--Yet Complicated--Forms of Love," MSNBC, February 2014 "Where the World's Greatest Photographers Go To Get Away," The New York Times, February 2014 "Photographing Ariel Sharon," Tablet Magazine, January 14, 2014 Jacobs, Sarah, "Photo Projects That Made For A Better 2013," Photoshelter Blog, December 9, 2013 Reznik, Eugene, "A Perfect Daughter: Gender Reassignment by Gillian Laub," TIME Lightbox, August 26, 2013 "John Legend ventures into film with documentary on segregated proms," MSN Entertainment, September 20, 2013 “Face of the Day,” The Dish, March 2013 Sun, Feifei, “Last Dance: American Proms by Gillian Laub” TIME Lightbox, May 31, 2012 "'Fifty Shades' of Frenzy," TIME Lightbox, March 30, 2012 Rosenberg, David, "On Passover, Celebrating Life and Ritual in a Jewish Family," Slate Behold, March 25, 2012 “How We See Love and Family,” Glamour, December 2012 "Thanksgiving Tradition: Gillian Laub's Turkey Day," TIME Lightbox, November 24, 2011 "Tel Aviv Beach: One Photographer's Enduring Oasis," TIME Lightbox, October 10, 2011 Sendra, David, “La Infancia Como Inspiración,” Yodona, March 2010 “The Decade of Blurred Boundaries,” PDN Magazine Issue 1, January 2010 Duff, Craig, “The Top 10 Everything of 2010” - Take Care. TIME. December 9, 2010. Carneiro, João, “Bola de Cristal,” Expresso, August 15, 2009 Doyle, Leonard, “Segregation at the School Prom,” The Sunday Telegraph, June 21, 2009 CNN Headline Prime News May, 29, 2009 Radio: Interview on The Joan Hamburg Show (WOR) May 26, 2009 Koppel, Niko, “Showcase: A Prom Divided,” The New York Times, May 22, 2009 “Testimony, by Gillian Laub,” Brooklyn Jews, July 2009 Interview with Gillian Laub, Leadel, September 2008 Freeman, Melanie Stetson, “In the Middle East: The Tenacity of Hope,” The Christian Science Monitor, November 27, 2007 Roberts, Bryony, “Art,” Monthly Reviews of Books Worth Reading, Boldtype Issue #49, November 3, 2007 Levac, Alex, “And we both say ‘hello’ with the word ‘peace’,” Haaretz, October 11, 2007 Schlatter, N. Elizabeth, “Family Life: Photographer Focus,” Focus Magazine Issue 13, August 2007 Meyers, William, “Putting Our Eyes to Work,” The New York Sun, June 14, 2007 West, Naomi, “Caught in the Crossfire,” Telegraph Magazine, June 9, 2007 Clendaiel, Morgan, “Conflict Exposed, Israel & Palestine,” Good Magazine, May 2007 “Envisager La Paix,” French Vogue, pg. 62, May 2007 “Den raa bilden av krigets vardag,” Expressen, Sweden, April 2007 “Caught in the Moment,” Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2007 “Unflinching Look at Israel,” The Times, April 29, 2007 Lord, Jade, “Faces of Conflict,” The British Journal of Photography Volume 154 #7631, April 25, 2007 “Recording Hate’s Carnage,” The Post Star, April 22, 2007 “Broken Bodies, Survival, & Hope,” Herald Press, April 22, 2007 Goldman, Adam, “The Visible Costs of War,” Associated Press, April 19, 2007 “Photography book takes unflinching look at victims of Arab-Israeli conflict,” International Herald Tribune, April 19, 2007 Cotter, Holland, “Snap Judgments of Israel, More Than Words Can Say,” The New York Times, April 14, 2007 Spence, Rebecca, “The Go-Between,” Forward, April 13, 2007 Bachman, Rabbi Andy, “Testimony, by Gillian Laub,” Ideas, April 10, 2007 “Libros y Exposiciones,” Sophot, April 2, 2007 “Gillian Laub Testimony,” Foam Magazine #10/Stories, Spring 2007 “Israele Salam Shalom,” iO donna, pg. 115 March 10, 2007 Robinson, Walter, “Weekend Update,” Art on Paper Magazine, March 9, 2007 LaSala, Anthony, “Book Learning,” by PDN, March 2007 Beem, Edgar Allen, “Hardcover Debuts, PDN, March 2007 Benedictus, Leo, “Gillian Laub’s Best Shot,” The Guardian, pg. 27, December 7, 2007 “Testimonianze,” Portfolio 07 Un Anno di Foto, pg 98-105 “Beyond Wounds: A Portfolio of Gillian Laub,” Guilt and Pleasure, N°2, Fight Issue, Spring 2006 "Hindsight: The Evolution of the AP Annual," Stop Smiling Issue 29 2006 “Photo Annual 2005, Nikon Storytellers Award,” PDN, pg. 75, May 2005 “American Photography 21,” collection of imagery, pg. 118 & 119, 2005 Barzini, Chiara, “Sulla Stessa Terra: Israele & Palestina,” Flair Magazine, October 2004 Leibovitz, Liel, “Shooting Coexistence,” The Jewish Week, September 17, 2004 “Fans”; COLORS, Summer 2004 Rieff, David, interviews by Abu Aker, Khaled, “The Maimed,” The New York Times Magazine, July 18, 2004 Rexer, Lyle, “The Arbus Effect,” Art on Paper, Vol. 8, No. 3, pg. 66, Jan-Feb 2004 Dykstra, Jean, “Gillian Laub”; Fotophile, Number 46, 2003 “Focus On: Gillian Laub,” Art on Paper, May–June, 2003 “PDN’S 30, Our Choice of Emerging Photographers to Watch,” PDN, March 2002 Nguyen, Long and Ho, Dorothy, “Fashion Portraits,” PDN Magazine, July 2001 Belasco, Daniel, "The Family as Muse," The Jewish Week, June 22, 2001
Select Publications 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 Interview, “We Sent a Photographer to Prom Night in South Florida”, Interview Magazine, April 2019 Bobb, Brooke “The Hills Are Alive”, Vogue, March 2019 Haskell, Rob “How America Ferrera and Her Husband Are Inspiring Celebrities to Get Political”, Vogue Magazine, February 2019 Clinton, Chelsea “Planned Parenthood Head Lena Wen and Chelsea Clinton Are Tired of Women’s Health Being a Game”, Interview Magazine, February 2019 Pressler, Jessica “Richie Rich’s Name Is the Most Subtle Thing About Him”, The Cut, New York Magazine, February 2019 Laub, Gillian “How Stacey Abrahams Made History”, Vanity Fair, November 2018 Davis, Allison “”Yeah, I’m Not For Everyone”: Lena Dunham Comes To Terms With Herself”, The Cut, New York Magazine, November 2018 Gay, Jason “Chrissy Teigen on Kanye, Getting Blocked by Trump, and Actually Caring About Her Comments”, Vogue, October 2018 Washington, Kerry “A No-Nonsense conversation between Alexandria-Ocasio Cortex and Kerry Washington”, Interview Magazine, September 2018 Drew, Kimberly “Tina Knowles Lawson on Her Black Art Collection, Beyoncé, Solange, and Creativity” Vanity Fair, September 2018 Tomkins, Calvin “Alex Katz’s Life In Art”, The New Yorker, August 2018 Grigoriadis, Vanessa “’This is Bigger Than Myself’: How the Women of the U.S. Gymnastics Team Found Their Voice”, Summer 2018 Norris, Michele “As America Changes, Some Anxious Whites Feel Left Behind”, National Geographic, April 2018 Satenstein, Liana “Off the Beaten Path: After Leaving Orthodox Judaism Women Forge a New Identity in the Secular World”, Vogue Magazine, March 2018 Brooks, Dan, “The Impossible Burden of Playing Donald Trump”, New York Times, October 2017 Luscombe, Belinda, “Interview: Ivana Trump Has Her Say”, TIME, October 2017 Genova, Alexandra, “Aretha Franklin Performs ‘Rock of 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