Kim Traill - Multimedia Journalist
About
I’m an international, native English-speaking video/print/photo journalist and video-maker, based in Vienna since 2012.
After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance (clarinet) in Melbourne in 1990, I moved to the then USSR. As the Soviet Union collapsed, I realised I would rather be collecting stories. By 1997, I’d hitchhiked through Europe and Asia, spent two years attempting to play jazz in a Californian casino, a year and a half in Russia, wandered through western China and ridden a bike down the Karakorum highway into Pakistan.
Thanks to an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TV show called Race Around the World, I finally got to make my first films as a video journalist in 1997: in South America, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, Central and Southeast Asia.
Since then, I’ve researched and shot multiple long form documentaries in the former USSR, Afghanistan and Cuba for SBS Australia’s international current affairs program, Dateline.
These include films about: the conflict in Chechnya; repression of media in Russia; the rise of Russian nationalism; the persecution of opposition activists in Belarus; drug addiction and the HIV epidemic in the former USSR; nuclear pollution; Russia’s ‘anti-gay propaganda’ law; and Chechen refugees from Vienna fighting in Syria.
I’ve also worked as producer, camera, fixer, translator (Russian and German to English) and reporter for various programs broadcast on ABC Australia (7:30 Report, Foreign Correspondent, Great Peking to Paris Expedition documentary series), BBC Newsnight, PressTV, Puls4 (Austria) and the History Channel.
My book - Red Square Blues - A beginner's guide to the decline and fall of the Soviet Union was published in 2009 by HarperCollins. I’ve also written feature articles for Limelight magazine, the Australian Financial Review and the Brass Herald, among others.
More recently, I have freelanced as a journalist/photographer for ABC and SBS Australia, as well as for Deutsche Welle online news features, reporting from Austria, Ukraine and Russia on social and political issues.
Additionally, I have returned to my musical roots and now also shoot and edit classical music videos for musicians in Vienna.
After completing a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance (clarinet) in Melbourne in 1990, I moved to the then USSR. As the Soviet Union collapsed, I realised I would rather be collecting stories. By 1997, I’d hitchhiked through Europe and Asia, spent two years attempting to play jazz in a Californian casino, a year and a half in Russia, wandered through western China and ridden a bike down the Karakorum highway into Pakistan.
Thanks to an ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TV show called Race Around the World, I finally got to make my first films as a video journalist in 1997: in South America, Mexico, Africa, the Middle East, Central and Southeast Asia.
Since then, I’ve researched and shot multiple long form documentaries in the former USSR, Afghanistan and Cuba for SBS Australia’s international current affairs program, Dateline.
These include films about: the conflict in Chechnya; repression of media in Russia; the rise of Russian nationalism; the persecution of opposition activists in Belarus; drug addiction and the HIV epidemic in the former USSR; nuclear pollution; Russia’s ‘anti-gay propaganda’ law; and Chechen refugees from Vienna fighting in Syria.
I’ve also worked as producer, camera, fixer, translator (Russian and German to English) and reporter for various programs broadcast on ABC Australia (7:30 Report, Foreign Correspondent, Great Peking to Paris Expedition documentary series), BBC Newsnight, PressTV, Puls4 (Austria) and the History Channel.
My book - Red Square Blues - A beginner's guide to the decline and fall of the Soviet Union was published in 2009 by HarperCollins. I’ve also written feature articles for Limelight magazine, the Australian Financial Review and the Brass Herald, among others.
More recently, I have freelanced as a journalist/photographer for ABC and SBS Australia, as well as for Deutsche Welle online news features, reporting from Austria, Ukraine and Russia on social and political issues.
Additionally, I have returned to my musical roots and now also shoot and edit classical music videos for musicians in Vienna.
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