Itinerant Pictures is the film and video company of Daniel Traub, a photographer and filmmaker based in Philadelphia. It is focused on documentaries that profile artists, cultural practitioners, and people whose work intersects with contemporary social realities. Its work includes the documentary features Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own (2019), a portrait of the sculptor, and The Barefoot Artist (2014, co-directed with Glenn Holsten), about Lily Yeh’s collaborative work in marginalized communities, and the short film Xu Bing: Phoenix (2013), on the making of the artist’s monumental sculptures.

The films have screened at Film Forum, MASS MoCA and the Vancouver International Film Festival, and have been covered in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Variety.

Itinerant Pictures also collaborates with museums and cultural institutions on short-form films and exhibition-related media, most recently for the Philadelphia Museum of Art: see Videos. Other commissions have come from the McGovern Institute at MIT, Beam Contemporary Art and Blind Magazine.

Traub has also worked for more than two decades as a documentary cinematographer on independent films and broadcast series, including the features Hollywood Beauty Salon and Badddd Sonia Sanchez (both 2015) and OC87 (2010), and programs for PBS NOVA, Frontline, PBS Nature, Arte and ZDF. The full filmography is at danieltraub.net.

Traub’s photographs and books are at danieltraub.net. His commissioned photography of architecture, landscape and people is at danieltraubphotography.com.