Daniel Traub is an American photographer based in Shanghai and New York City. Since 1999, he
has been engaged with long term projects in China including a body of work entitled Simplified
Characters which explores the transformation of China’s cities through street portraits and urban
scenes and the large format series City’s Edge which explores the border region where urban and
rural China meet. His images have been exhibited in Asia, the UK and the United States and have
appeared in various publications including The New York Times Magazine, London Telegraph
Magazine and Wallpaper*.
Daniel Traub has also been the director of photography for numerous documentaries and reports
throughout Asia for networks and production companies including PBS, National Geographic,
German Television ZDF and Arte. He was born in Philadelphia in 1971.