Gail Albert Halaban (1970) is one of the most authoritative voices in contemporary American photography. Trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University and Yale University (MFA), where she studied with Nan Goldin and Gregory Crewdson, she has developed an unmistakable style that combines conceptual rigour with a powerful, cinematic construction of the image.

Her work explores the subtle boundary between intimacy and public space, turning urban life into visual narrative. Her acclaimed series Out My Window (ongoing since 2007), created across New York, Paris, Istanbul, Buenos Aires and several Italian cities, presents large staged photographs made in collaboration with the residents themselves, opening a unique dialogue between voyeurism, empathy and collective identity. Inspired by the great American painter Edward Hopper, Albert Halaban explores the sometimes palpable distance between human beings, and through her projects she succeeds in creating a sense of community among people who, until shortly before, were complete strangers, connected only by living side by side.

Her work is held in prestigious collections including the Getty Museum, the Hermès Foundation, the Museum of the City of New York, Columbia University, the George Eastman Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and other major international institutions. In addition to Camilla Prini Gallery, she is represented by Jackson Fine Art and Weinstein Hammons Gallery in the United States and by Galerie XII in Paris, and her solo exhibitions have met with great public and critical acclaim.

Her editorial and photographic projects have been reviewed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Le Monde and The Wall Street Journal, confirming her standing on the global art scene.

She lives and works in New York, where she teaches at Columbia University. Her work continues to redefine the way we look at, and inhabit, cities.