Fotograf/-in: Laub Gillian

Gillian Laub (born in Chappaqua, New York, 1975) is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York. She received a BA in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, before studying photography at the International Center of Photography, New York. Her works include the book Testimony (Aperture, 2007) and the book and HBO film Southern Rites (2015). Laub received a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2019. Maya Benton is a curator, lecturer, and writer. As a curator at the International Center of Photography, she organized Laub's traveling exhibition Southern Rites (2018-ongoing). In fall 2020, she became a visiting professor at Yale University.