MIGUEL FAIRBANKS PHOTOGRAPHY

Published Work--Documentary

Story on Koalas, for National Geographic Magazine.Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia
   
Photo of Mel Fisher (left of center, wearing glasses) on the day he and his crew celebrate their discovery of the Spanish galleon, Nuestra Señora de Atocha, off Key West, Florida. Mel's son, Kane, holds a solid bar of silver over his head, just one piece of an enormous treasure of gold, silver and jewels valued at more than 400 million dollars. (for Stern magazine)
   
Hikers traverse mammoth driftwood logs along the famed West Coast Trail, a treacherous 77-kilometer trail that is as difficult as it is beautiful; on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.(for GEO magazine)
     
  
Story on the Brazilian island paradise of Fernando de Noroñha, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. (for National Geographic Magazine)
   
Photo of Pão de Azucar from the famed statue of Corocovado, overlooking Rio de Janeiro.(for The New York Times Magazine)
   
Story on Koalas, for National Geographic Magazine. Photographed in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.
     
  
Photo of Cerro Tres Puntos (Three-Point Peak), from the lookout where Robinson Crusoe (the real-life Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk) watched for passing ships that might save him from the island on which he was marooned. Story on Robinson Crusoe Island originally photographed for the National Geographic book, "Islands Lost in Time" and subsequently published in the Italian magazine CLASS (seen here).
   
Ad for Men's Journal, aboard a Harley in a tunnel outside Cody, Wyoming.
   
Photo of the Brazilian youths who “surf” the tops of Rio de Janeiro's electric commuter trains, which serve the world's most dangerous slum, the Baixada Fluminense. Some 150 kids die each year in this deadly "sport." (Miguel was going backwards atop the train at 50 mph, while trying to avoid the 3,300-volt wires just overhead).(for COLORS magazine)
     
  
Portrait of Director Gus Van Sant, on the set of "My Own Private Idaho," in Portland, Oregon.(for The New York Times Magazine)
   
Aerial photo of downtown Los Angeles, as part of a cover story on air pollution in that city.(for The New York Times Magazine)
   
Story on the impoverished street children of Guatemala City.(for The New York Times Magazine)
     
  
Ad for Patrick Media Group.Mono Lake, Eastern Sierras, California
   
Story on the Mayan culture and archaeological ruins in the Petén region of Northern Guatemala.(for National Geographic Magazine)
   
Story on investing in the highly successful Harley-Davidson Corporation. (for SmartMoney)
     
  
Photo of a koala being taken home for the evening by an animal caregiver in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. Story on Koalas originally photographed for National Geographic Magazine, and subsequently published in the German magazine GEO (seen here).
   
Cover photo of a large group of jubilant men in Tarragona, Spain, who had just collapsed after successfully constructing a “human tower” that stood nine levels high--a rare accomplishment in this highly competitive national pastime.(for the National Geographic book, "Descubrir España: Cataluña," or, "Discover Spain: Cataluña")