Daniel Traub is an American photographer and filmmaker that has been based in China since 1999. As a photographer, he has been engaged with long term projects 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 looks at the border region where urban and rural China meet. His images have been exhibited in Asia and the United States and have appeared in various publications including the New York Times Magazine, Telegraph Magazine and Wallpaper*.

Daniel Traub has also made several short films and documentaries and has been the director of photography for numerous documentaries and reports throughout Asia for networks and production companies including German Television ZDF, Arte and National Geographic. He was born in Philadelphia in 1971.