Born and grown in Bucharest, Anton Roland Laub lives and works in Berlin. He studied spatial strategies, photography, and media and communication science at the weißensee art academy, Berlin, the New School for Photography, Berlin, and at the University of Bucharest. Bucharest’s recent history – seen particularly through the prism of spatial organization – as well as the stigmata of Ceaușescu’s dictatorship, are one of his main focuses as a photographer. In 2017, with the work “Mobile Churches”, he was shortlisted for the Dummy Book Award at the International Photography Festival Les Rencontres d’Arles and at the Unseen Photography Festival in Amsterdam. The photo book was published as a trilingual edition (De/Fr/En) by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg. In 2018, the photo series “Mobile Churches” was shortlisted for the New Discovery Award at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles and will be on display from July 2nd until September 23rd. Since 2017 he is represented by Kehrer Gallery, Berlin.

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