About Fabian Muir
Instagram @fabianmuir
Fabian Muir is an award-winning Australian photographer based in Sydney. The principal motivation behind his projects and practice is visual storytelling with a focus on humanist issues.
He is an Eddie Adams alumnus (USA) and represented by Michael Reid in Sydney and Berlin.
He speaks fluent German, French and Spanish, while his Russian sputters with the determination of a Lada on a rather steep incline.
His images have featured in major solo and group exhibitions and festivals around the world and have been acquired by numerous significant collections. His fine art series addressing social challenges and injustice confronting refugees, entitled 'Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country' (2014) and 'Urban Burqa' (2017), as well as his two-year survey of daily life in the DPRK (North Korea) have attracted global press, television and radio coverage.
Outlets include The Guardian / The Atlantic / VICE / BBC World TV / CNN International TV / LensCulture / SPIEGEL / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / BBC Asian Network / BBC Digital / FotoEvidence / PDN / Vogue Entertaining + Travel / Sueddeutsche Zeitung / Channel 9 Australia / BuzzFeed / World Photography Organisation Blog / Leica Magazine / Vision (China) / ZEISS Lenspire / France Culture (Radio France) / Photographic Museum of Humanity (PHmuseum) / Marie Claire / CNU (China) / El Observador (Portugal) / The Sydney Morning Herald / Fotoblogia (Poland) / LIFO / Bird in Flight / FAHRENHEITº Magazine / MindFood Magazine / Ampersand Magazine / Studio Magazine / Bios Monthly (Taiwan) / La Repubblica / Lenta.ru / The Age / Black + White Magazine / Konbini / Capture Magazine / Photojournalink / Expert-Russkiy Reporter / Street Photography Magazine / Feature Shoot / Gulf News (UAE) / The National (UAE) / PhotogrVphy Magazine / Musée Magazine New York / Forbes Magazine / London Telegraph / Lenscratch / Aesthetica Magazine / Portrait of Humanity book published by Hoxton Mini Press, London / The Independent / London Times / Huck Magazine / British Journal of Photography
Selected honours:
- National Geographic Society COVID-19 Emergency Fund Grantee
- British Journal of Photography/Magnum Photos 'Portrait of Humanity', Winner
- Reminders Photography Stronghold (Tokyo) Grantee for Intimate Perspectives on North Korea
- Felix Schoeller Award, Nominee for Megalopolis
- Magnum Photography Award for a documentary series for Intimate Perspectives on North Korea
- PhotogrVphy Grant 1st Place Photojournalism and Grand Prize winner for Shades of Leisure in North Korea
Selected exhibitions:
2020 Portrait of Humanity at Louisiana State Museum as part of PhotoNOLA Festival, New Orleans, United States via Magnum Photos/British Journal of Pho tography
2019 Critical Mass Top 50 winners exhibition, Santa Fe, USA
2019 Portrait of Humanity at National Centre For Photography, Ballarat, Vic- toria, Australia via Magnum Photos/British Journal of Photography
2019 Portrait of Humanity at LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos, Nigeria via Mag num Photos/British Journal of Photography
2019 Portrait of Humanity at Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Zagreb, Croatia via Magnum Photos/British Journal of Photography
2019 Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea
2019 North Korea at Michael Reid, Sydney
2019 Light Years at Michael Reid, Sydney
2019 Head On Festival, Sydney, Searching for North Korea as part of the finalists’ exhibition for the Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography
2018 Addis Foto Fest, Addis Abiba, Ethiopia, Shades of Leisure in North Korea
2018 Photo Israel, Tel Aviv, Searching for North Korea as part of the finalists’ exhibition for the Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography.
2018 Gallery RIVAA, New York City, The Gods of North Korea interpreting Roosevelt’s four freedoms, specifically freedom of worship as part of the Capture Your Free- doms exhibition.
2018 FDR Four Freedoms Park, New York City, The Gods of North Korea interpreting Roosevelt’s four freedoms, specifically freedom of worship.
2018 Embassy of Australia, Paris, France, WALL POWER: Significant Contemporary Aus- tralian Photography, travelling group exhibition via the Australian Government/ Michael Reid Gallery
2018 Month of Photography Los Angeles (MoPLA), Searching for North Korea at Arena 1 Gallery in association with PDN, New York
2018 Australia House, London, UK, WALL POWER: Significant Contemporary Australian Photography, travelling group exhibition via the Australian Government/Michael Reid Gallery in conjunction with Photo London
2018 Lenscratch Good Manners
2017 Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germany, WALL POWER: Significant Contemporary Australian Photography, travelling group exhibition via the Australian Government/ Michael Reid Gallery
2017 Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE, Urban Burqa at Behind the Portrait
2017 Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia, Searching for North Korea via FotoEvidence
2017 Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Porto Photo Fest, Portugal Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Cologne, Germany, Haus der Stiftungen, WALL POWER: Significant Contemporary Australian Photography, travelling group exhibition via the Australian Government/ Michael Reid Gallery
2017 Somerset House, London, Shades of Leisure in North Korea, as part of the Sony World Photography Awards/ZEISS Photography Award & Martin Parr Exhibition
2017 Urban Burqa, Michael Reid Sydney
2017 Copenhagen Photo Festival, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Fotoleggendo Festival, Rome, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 StreetFoto San Fransisco, USA, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Vienna Photo Book Festival, Austria, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Belfast Photo Festival, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 PhotoOn Festival, Valencia, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Krakow Photomonth Festival, Poland, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Los Angeles Festival of Photography, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 FORMAT17, Dublin, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Focus Photography Festival, Mumbai, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Month of Photography, Denver, USA, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Odessa/Batumi Photo Days, Ukraine/Georgia, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Tiradadents Photo Festival, Brazil, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2016 AngkorPhoto, Cambodia, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2016 Miami Street Photography Festival at HistoryMiami Museum/Art Basel Miami, USA
2016 Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea
2015 Truth North, Head On Photo Festival, Sydney
2015 Wall Power: Significant Contemporary Australian Photography, Michael Reid Sydney
2014 Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country, Michael Reid Sydney
2014 Back in the USSR, Michael Reid Berlin
2012 Russia, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2012 Russia, Michael Reid
Fabian Muir is an award-winning Australian photographer based in Sydney. The principal motivation behind his projects and practice is visual storytelling with a focus on humanist issues.
He is an Eddie Adams alumnus (USA) and represented by Michael Reid in Sydney and Berlin.
He speaks fluent German, French and Spanish, while his Russian sputters with the determination of a Lada on a rather steep incline.
His images have featured in major solo and group exhibitions and festivals around the world and have been acquired by numerous significant collections. His fine art series addressing social challenges and injustice confronting refugees, entitled 'Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country' (2014) and 'Urban Burqa' (2017), as well as his two-year survey of daily life in the DPRK (North Korea) have attracted global press, television and radio coverage.
Outlets include The Guardian / The Atlantic / VICE / BBC World TV / CNN International TV / LensCulture / SPIEGEL / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / BBC Asian Network / BBC Digital / FotoEvidence / PDN / Vogue Entertaining + Travel / Sueddeutsche Zeitung / Channel 9 Australia / BuzzFeed / World Photography Organisation Blog / Leica Magazine / Vision (China) / ZEISS Lenspire / France Culture (Radio France) / Photographic Museum of Humanity (PHmuseum) / Marie Claire / CNU (China) / El Observador (Portugal) / The Sydney Morning Herald / Fotoblogia (Poland) / LIFO / Bird in Flight / FAHRENHEITº Magazine / MindFood Magazine / Ampersand Magazine / Studio Magazine / Bios Monthly (Taiwan) / La Repubblica / Lenta.ru / The Age / Black + White Magazine / Konbini / Capture Magazine / Photojournalink / Expert-Russkiy Reporter / Street Photography Magazine / Feature Shoot / Gulf News (UAE) / The National (UAE) / PhotogrVphy Magazine / Musée Magazine New York / Forbes Magazine / London Telegraph / Lenscratch / Aesthetica Magazine / Portrait of Humanity book published by Hoxton Mini Press, London / The Independent / London Times / Huck Magazine / British Journal of Photography
Selected honours:
- National Geographic Society COVID-19 Emergency Fund Grantee
- British Journal of Photography/Magnum Photos 'Portrait of Humanity', Winner
- Reminders Photography Stronghold (Tokyo) Grantee for Intimate Perspectives on North Korea
- Felix Schoeller Award, Nominee for Megalopolis
- Magnum Photography Award for a documentary series for Intimate Perspectives on North Korea
- PhotogrVphy Grant 1st Place Photojournalism and Grand Prize winner for Shades of Leisure in North Korea
Selected exhibitions:
2020 Portrait of Humanity at Louisiana State Museum as part of PhotoNOLA Festival, New Orleans, United States via Magnum Photos/British Journal of Pho tography
2019 Critical Mass Top 50 winners exhibition, Santa Fe, USA
2019 Portrait of Humanity at National Centre For Photography, Ballarat, Vic- toria, Australia via Magnum Photos/British Journal of Photography
2019 Portrait of Humanity at LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos, Nigeria via Mag num Photos/British Journal of Photography
2019 Portrait of Humanity at Organ Vida International Photography Festival, Zagreb, Croatia via Magnum Photos/British Journal of Photography
2019 Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea
2019 North Korea at Michael Reid, Sydney
2019 Light Years at Michael Reid, Sydney
2019 Head On Festival, Sydney, Searching for North Korea as part of the finalists’ exhibition for the Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography
2018 Addis Foto Fest, Addis Abiba, Ethiopia, Shades of Leisure in North Korea
2018 Photo Israel, Tel Aviv, Searching for North Korea as part of the finalists’ exhibition for the Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography.
2018 Gallery RIVAA, New York City, The Gods of North Korea interpreting Roosevelt’s four freedoms, specifically freedom of worship as part of the Capture Your Free- doms exhibition.
2018 FDR Four Freedoms Park, New York City, The Gods of North Korea interpreting Roosevelt’s four freedoms, specifically freedom of worship.
2018 Embassy of Australia, Paris, France, WALL POWER: Significant Contemporary Aus- tralian Photography, travelling group exhibition via the Australian Government/ Michael Reid Gallery
2018 Month of Photography Los Angeles (MoPLA), Searching for North Korea at Arena 1 Gallery in association with PDN, New York
2018 Australia House, London, UK, WALL POWER: Significant Contemporary Australian Photography, travelling group exhibition via the Australian Government/Michael Reid Gallery in conjunction with Photo London
2018 Lenscratch Good Manners
2017 Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germany, WALL POWER: Significant Contemporary Australian Photography, travelling group exhibition via the Australian Government/ Michael Reid Gallery
2017 Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE, Urban Burqa at Behind the Portrait
2017 Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia, Searching for North Korea via FotoEvidence
2017 Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Porto Photo Fest, Portugal Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Cologne, Germany, Haus der Stiftungen, WALL POWER: Significant Contemporary Australian Photography, travelling group exhibition via the Australian Government/ Michael Reid Gallery
2017 Somerset House, London, Shades of Leisure in North Korea, as part of the Sony World Photography Awards/ZEISS Photography Award & Martin Parr Exhibition
2017 Urban Burqa, Michael Reid Sydney
2017 Copenhagen Photo Festival, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Fotoleggendo Festival, Rome, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 StreetFoto San Fransisco, USA, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Vienna Photo Book Festival, Austria, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Belfast Photo Festival, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 PhotoOn Festival, Valencia, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Krakow Photomonth Festival, Poland, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Los Angeles Festival of Photography, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 FORMAT17, Dublin, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Focus Photography Festival, Mumbai, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Month of Photography, Denver, USA, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Odessa/Batumi Photo Days, Ukraine/Georgia, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2017 Tiradadents Photo Festival, Brazil, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2016 AngkorPhoto, Cambodia, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea via the Magnum Photography Awards
2016 Miami Street Photography Festival at HistoryMiami Museum/Art Basel Miami, USA
2016 Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea
2015 Truth North, Head On Photo Festival, Sydney
2015 Wall Power: Significant Contemporary Australian Photography, Michael Reid Sydney
2014 Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country, Michael Reid Sydney
2014 Back in the USSR, Michael Reid Berlin
2012 Russia, Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery
2012 Russia, Michael Reid