“The Lord informs Moses that his time to die is nearing and suggests he bring Joshua to the Tent of Meeting. The Lord meets them in a pillar of cloud and expresses a concern that Moses’ death will encourage a spate of infractions among the Israelites, who might worship other gods and force the Lord to abandon them.”

Gillian Laub is a photographer and filmmaker based in New York. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in comparative literature before studying photography at the International Center of Photography, where her love of visual storytelling and family narratives began.