Mike Abrahams
Based in London Mike Abrahams has worked as a photographer for40 years having been renowned for his sensitive eye in documenting the lives of ordinary people often in extraordinary situations. He was a cofounder of Network Photographers and his work has taken him around the world. His photographs have been published in all the major international news media. Latterly much of his assignment work has been shooting for corporates and design agencies.
As a photojournalist he has worked on assignment for amongst others
The Independent Magazine, Independent Sunday Review,The Observer Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Times, The Telegraph Magazine, The Telegraph, Time MagazineFortune, Forbes, Stern, Der Spiegel, L”Express, Grande Reportage
As a corporate photographer he has shot annual reports for amongst others
ABF. BAT, BBC, BG, Bumi, Capco, Cape, Central School of Speech and Drama, Centrica, City and Guilds, City University, Finsbury Foods, Friends Provident, HSBC, House of Fraser, ICI, Interbrew, JKX, Keller, Kier, Kiln, Kidde, Laird, Legal and General, Marks and Spencer, National Grid, Nattiest, Peter Hambro Mining, Philipps, Prebon, Premier Oil, Puma Energy, Richemont, Riotinto, SAB Miller, Sage, Selfridges, Shell, T&N, Total, TullowOil, Unilever, Whitbread
Awards
2000 World Press Photo - 3rd Prize, Daily Life
Books
2021 West Belfast 1985-1988 (Cafe Royal Books)
2021 One Day in July, Northern Ireland 1987-1998 (Cafe Royal Books)
2021 Borderlands 1984-1993 (Cafe Royal Books)
2021 Ardoyne, Belfast 1986-1988 (Cafe Royal Books)2020 Toxteth 1979-1982 (Cafe Royal Books)
2020 Liverpool 1973-1989 (Cafe Royal Books)
2000 Faith - A Journey With Those Who Believe (Network Photographers)
1989 Still War - Photographs From The North of Ireland (Bellew)
1977 The Alienated - Growing Old Today (Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative)
Selected Exhibitions,
2022 Facing Britain. Museum for Photography Krakow
2022 Facing Britain. Monchehaus Museum Goslar
2021 Facing Britain. Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
2007 Structure and Form. Gallery K, London
2004 English Eyes. Leica Gallery New York
2002 Beyond The Facade - 21 Years of Photojournalism from Network Photographers. The Newsroom London
2000 Faith. Visa pour l'image Perpignan, Hereford Photography Festival, The AOP Gallery London, Galeria Ulica Warsaw,
2000 World Press Photo. Worldwide touring exhibition
1999 Revealing Views - Images from Ireland. Royal Festival Hall London, Royal Photographic Society Bath
1998 NHS at 50. Touring exhibition at 15 hospitals throughout Britain
1993 Positive Lives - Responses to HIV. The Photographers Gallery London. Then touring world wide to the present day
1992 ICI Photography Awards. National Museum o f Film and Photography Bradford
1991 Frames of Mind - Ten Years of Network. Open Eye Gallery Liverpool
1990 The Year of Revolutions - Network in Eastern Europe. Zelda Cheatle Gallery London, National Museum of Film and Photography Bradford
1977 The Alienated. The Half Moon Gallery London then touring throughout Britain
Selected Catalogues and Book Entries
2022 Another Country - British Documentary Photography Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson)
2021 Facing Britain (IKS)
2017 1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die (Quintessence)
2014 40 Ans de Photojournalisme - Generation Agences (La Martiniere)
2006 Things As They Are (World Press Phopto)
2002 Underexposed (Vision On)
2001 Photographers International (Taipei)
2000 Century (Phaidon)
2000 World Press Photo (Amsterdam)
2000 Black and White Photography (London)
1999 Revealing Views (South Bank Centre London)
1998 NHS at 50 (NHS/Network)
1994 Reportage / CCPM
1993 Positive Lives (Cassells)
1992 ICI Photography Awards (NMPFT Bradford)
Public Collections
Museum of London
Science and Media Museum