Gillian Laub's photographs of her family over the past twenty years, now gathered in one volume, explore how society's largest questions reveal themselves within our most intimate relationships.
 
Family Matters focuses on the artist's family as an example of how Donald Trump's ability to sow discord and division has affected communities, individuals and households across the country. As Laub explains: "I began examining my relationship with my relatives, which proved far more revealing of my relationship with the outside world than I had ever imagined, and became the key to exploring my questions about the effects of wealth, vanity, childhood, old age, fragility, political conflict, religious traditions and mortality." These issues became tangible in 2016, when Laub and her parents found themselves on opposing sides of the most divisive presidential election in recent US history. They intensified further in the run-up to the 2020 election, amid a global pandemic and protests supporting Black Lives Matter.
 
Family Matters reveals Laub's willingness to confront ideas of privilege and unity and to expose both her relatives' flaws and vulnerabilities and her own. Ultimately, it celebrates the resilience and power of family, including the families we choose, in the face of divisive rhetoric. In doing so, it holds up a deeply personal mirror to contemporary America's social and political divisions.