Steven L. Miller, Cultural Portrait Artist, is a Washington, DC based image maker who traded the Board room for the dark room. Spending most of his professional life leading non-profit organizations in six states, Miller left his executive position in 2002 to make images that reflect and impact the human condition.
Eight of his photographs are now in The Smithsonian's permanent collection. Curator Emeritus Herman Viola has said, "Steven L. Miller has the rare ability to capture a personality with a camera. It is the accolade we once bestowed on artists who did it with oils on canvas, like Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa."
Recently, fifty of Miller's images hung in the Virginia State Capital documenting the needs of special needs children. He was recently featured on Generations, a nationally televised program focusing on people who make dramatic mid-life career changes.
When not making and marketing his fine art black and white images, Miller teaches photography at two Washington, DC institutions. He also specializes in helping human service agencies tell their stories through compelling and memorable photographs.
"In a world of streaming video and media at our fingertips, it is refreshing that a single photograph, carefully crafted, can change hearts and minds," Miller has told students and audiences.
Married with two children, Miller has visited 33 countries in his search of finding "the unusual in the usual."
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