Tag: Greg Miller

As students all over the world head back to school after the summer break, LightBox presents Greg Miller’s large-format 8×10 series on school bus stops alongside rural roadways. Below, Miller reflects on his life as the father of two daughters, and the separate and shared worlds that he and they (and all parents and children, everywhere) inhabit.

Miller used an 8-by-10 view camera, which required him to stop and talk to every person he wanted to photograph. He said he had to work up the courage to get the photo he wanted. “The person you want to photograph the most is the person that’s scaring you the most. You’re like, ‘Oh God, I can’t photograph that person.’ For me, that’s the alarm going off that I need to photograph this person,” Miller said.

Photographer Greg Miller goes after the truth in a different way. He studies his subjects, makes their acquaintance at state fairs, on gas station parking lots, at the drive-in. He figures out who they are and what they stand for. And then he frames them in way that illuminates something both essential and elusive at the same time. It’s like visual poetry