A new edition. VACANT is a visual metaphor for an empty time. The world has been delirious for months and months, and we are still closed off to too much of what we once called the natural order of our lives. These photographs are the result for my need to wander, observe, and find the delights of being a photographer. I am always energized with phone in hand! 2024.

Photographs from all over the world of the great display of unabashed human delight with the sun. On the beach, the masks come off and allow the inhibitions to wane. Ever since his first publication Beach 1977, Traub has as Aaron Siskind once put it “accomplished a miraculous blend of genial accpetance and critical caricature” of that place where everyone is temporarily free. Nothing is left unexposed and no one seems to care about how they look basking in the public waterside. Whether in Brazil, Italy, wherever, human nature shares in the democracy of the sun. 2023.

This interactive iBook combines history, photography, voice and text as a contemporary tribute to a remarkable American hero, Ulysses S. Grant. Foreword by Ulysses Grant Dietz, preface by Fred Ritchin, readings from Grant’s Personal Memoirs by Edoardo Ballerini. InterlocutorPress, 2016.