Miriam Reik

Miriam Reik (born 1949)[1] is a British portrait and reportage photographer. She was a member of the Format photographic agency. In 1994, Reik had a solo exhibition of her series Can I Say Shalom at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Her work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London and Side Gallery, Newcastle.

Life and work

Self-taught, Reik has been a freelance photographer since 1983, specialising in portraiture and reportage.[1] She was a member of Format, the UK's first women's photographic agency.[2] She took part in Side Gallery's Unclear Family project, a portrait of family life in early 1990s South West Durham.[3] Later in the 1990s, she undertook a documentary series in which she returned to the North West London Jewish community she grew up in, "having distanced herself from it as a young adult".[4]

Publications

Publications by Reik

  • Heath Life: Life on Hampstead Heath. Rosco, 2004. ISBN 978-0954932909.
  • dress for CARNIVAL in cadiz. Self-published, 2010. ISBN 9798331052720.

Publications with contributions by Reik

  • "Nejasna Rodina" Luby 1994 / "Unclear Family" Luby 1994. Paris: Macula, 1984.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

Reik's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Miriam Reik". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 2025-08-28.
  2. ↑ "Ultimate Format | Format Women Photographers 1983 – 2003" Archived 2019-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, Photofusion.
  3. ↑ "Unclear Family: Crook 1993". Side. Retrieved 2025-08-28.
  4. 1 2 "Can I Say Shalom?". Side. Retrieved 2025-08-28.
  5. ↑ "The Photographers' Gallery - Exhibition History 1971 – present" (PDF). thephotographersgallery.org.uk.
  6. ↑ Montague, Alan (2012-09-07). "Art attack as exhibition gets underway at Ivy House". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 2025-08-28.
  7. ↑ "Photograph, resin coated silver geltain print". London Museum. Retrieved 2025-08-28.
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