[2] His first solo exhibition 'Robert Fairer Backstage Pass: Dior, Galliano, Jacobs, and McQueen' was held at SCAD Fash Museum of Fashion.

With his Hasselblad camera, he discovered the backstage area by chance and began photographing behind the scenes beauty stories and supermodels minutes before they walked onto the catwalk.

[8] In 2001 he was hired by American Vogue and became the magazine's contracted lensman working with Editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Fashion Editor André Leon Talley on backstage, runway, editorial, celebrity and wedding stories.

[10] Fairer began digitizing his archive after working with the Victoria & Albert Museum on their publication accompanying the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition in 2015.

It featured shots of supermodels Gisele Bundchen, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, makeup artists Pat McGrath and Val Garland, hair stylists Julien D'Ys and Orlando Pita, and milliners Stephen Jones and Philip Treacy.