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