Gillian Laub


Gillian Laub is an American photographer and filmmaker based in New York.

Early life and education

Laub was born in 1975 and raised in Chappaqua, 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 in New York City.

Publications

  • Testimony. New York: Aperture, 2007.. With essays by Ariella Azoulay and Raef Zreik.
  • Southern Rites. New York: Damiani, 2015..
  • Family Matters. New York: Aperture, 2021. Photographs and text by Laub..

Exhibitions

During January 2024 in New York City, Laub set up a series of large scale projections of portraits she has taken of Holocaust survivors. The images were projected onto the sides of buildings and even the Brooklyn Bridge, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Laub and a crew, set up the projections in the middle of the night; unannounced and without permits. The projections included quoted phrases from the survivors, and a hash tag of the title of the project, "@live2tell". The story of this exhibit and Laub's ongoing project of taking more than 300 hundred such portraits was featured in a profile segment of the U.S. television program, "CBS Sunday Morning" on February 23, 2025.

Films

  • ''Southern Rites''

Collections