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Brief Biography
David H. Miller
David H. Miller has long been active as a photographer. During his
professional life and travels he has done “street photography” as a notebook
of his experiences, working mostly in black and white. His photographs of
Afghanistan were among his earliest “street photography”, beginning a series
of street portraits that he continues today in a variety of countries. Afghans
at the time were not particularly camera shy, and since Mr. Miller could
converse with them in Dari, he began to develop a characteristic style of
street photography that was and has remained quite “up close and personal”.
Using wide-angle lenses Mr. Miller photographed life on the streets and in the
bazaars and markets of Kabul and other towns, and in a variety of countries
during his travel on business and pleasure.
His career as an international banker in Africa, Russia and other
international travel has taken him to many parts of the world where he
recorded his experiences with his cameras. He lived in Liberia, the Soviet
Union and Russia as well as in Afghanistan, and has traveled widely in Asia
and Europe, most recently in Egypt, Mongolia, Burma and Cambodia, now mostly for
trout fishing and pleasure.
In his photographic work he most often works with M model Leicas, lenses of
25-35mm and black and white film, or with swing lens panoramic cameras such as
the Noblex for his landscape work... His current photographic interests
include large format panoramic photography in black and white and infrared
photographs in both panoramic and medium format sizes.
A co-founder and President of Gallery 14, a cooperative photography gallery
in Hopewell, N.J., (www.photogallery14.com), David has exhibited at the
Gallery as well as with the Princeton Photography Club at the Montgomery
Center for the Arts, the Educational Testing Service, the Nassau Club, and the
Mercer Hospital. He has also shown in the Phillips Mill juried photographic
exhibition, and has had work published in Time magazine and The New York
Times.
He lectures about his travels including Afghanistan and mostly recently
Mongolia, Kamchatka and Slovenia. This summer of 2007 David is presenting a
workshop at the Photographers’ Formulary workshops, “People and Places: Travel
Portraits and Landscapes” (www.photoformulary.com).
He continues his street photography today, using his camera as his notebook
to record the scenes of everyday life passing before him. His on-going
long-term project is a series of street photographs in Russia where he lived
for 3 years, part of which were exhibited in his “Faces of Russia” exhibit
primarily based on photographs from 2004. He is currently also working on a
series of large scale panoramic landscape photographs from the Antarctica, the
Arctic, the Galapagos, Russia, China, and Mongolia.
Examples of his work can be seen at the Gallery 14 website,
www.photogallery14.com and at
www.dhmillerphotography.com. For further
information or to purchase copies of these photographs, see the contact
information below:
E-mail: daveinmoscow@yahoo.com
Telephone:609-577-0564