Name Pete Muller Role Photographer | Education American University Series Ebola In Sierra Leone | |
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Full Name Peter Kelly Muller Born February 17, 1982 (age 42) ( 1982-02-17 ) Newton, Massachusetts, U.S. Occupation Photographer, journalist, visual artist Nominations GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article Awards World Press Photo Award for General News Similar People Mads Nissen, Raphaela Rosella, Anand Varma | ||
Exploring Rodeo, Masculinity Through Photography | National Geographic
Pete Muller is an American photographer and multimedia reporter based in Nairobi, Kenya. His work focuses largely on conflict, masculinity and national identity in post-colonial states. He has won various awards and is a member of the photographic collective, Prime.
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Muller is a contributing photographer to The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic Magazine and other leading photographic outlets. He has provided media support for human rights and development organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UNICEF, Norwegian People's Aid, Greenpeace and others.
Life and work
Muller earned a bachelor's degree from the American University in Washington D.C. where he studied history and international peace and conflict resolution. He focused on the historical origins of contemporary ethnic conflict with particular interest in Israeli-Palestinian affairs, former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus; and social constructions of masculinity.
Muller's career began in 2005 with the Maan News Agency in the Palestinian Territories where he worked as a reporter and editor covering events in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip including Israeli settlement construction, Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, and the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council elections and the subsequent international boycott of the Hamas-led government.
He has since covered political and social issues in northern Uganda, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo and other areas affected by conflict and social strife. From 2009-2012 he was based in Juba, South Sudan covering the country's transition to independence following decades of civil war. In addition to chronicling the political issues surrounding secession, he explored the tenuous national identity of the new South. This work is born of Muller's long-standing interest in nation-states, identity and conflict in post-colonial environments.
In 2009, he exhibited images from northern Uganda with Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael. The show, Until the Grass Is Gone: Images of Transition in Northern Uganda, received critical acclaim and appeared on extended exhibit during DC FotoWeek 2009.
In 2011 his work on mobile military tribunals that aim to reduce mass rape in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo was included in the Open Society Foundation Moving Walls 19 Documentary Photography Exhibit.
In 2017, he was the Cyrus Vance Visiting Lecturer in International Relations at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts.
He is the grandson of Leon Kelly, one of the pioneers of surrealist painting in the United States.