Fabian Muir

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 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 (Chi...

University of Sydney
Eddie Adams Workshop alumnus, New York

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 Photography

2019 Reminders Photography Stronghold, Tokyo, Intimate Perspectives on North Korea

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 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 interpre...