Muir Vidler is a photographer based in the UK currently between London and Edinburgh. Born in Edinburgh, Muir previously worked as a chef, street entertainer and cruise-ship photographer where he learnt the rudiments of photography and saved the money to do a Postgraduate Diploma in Photojournalism at the London College of Printing in 2001. Since then he’s worked for many international magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Sunday Times Magazine, iD, Time, Zeit Magazin, Stern, Monocle...
Many of his photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and are collected in galleries and museums such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Olympia National and the Royal Academy of Arts. He’s recently been a winner in the Portrait of Britain contest and part of the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize exhibition.
It’s mostly been portraits and photojournalism, depending on the client, place, person or mood. Just now he’s still working in London but often in Scotland due to family in Edinburgh - so a pretty frequent train passenger. Currently he’s working on a personal project in Glasgow. It’s a series of portraits and documentary photography all over the city with no more specific theme than documenting and photographing a really fun, interesting, unique, friendly city. There’s no title yet but it’s hopefully a good book coming together.
