Greg Miller Photography

Name: Greg Miller Photography
Address: New York, NY, US
Telephone: +19174056799

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Photographer of Human Beings. American fine art, magazine and advertising photographer working in narrative portraiture.

12/12/2025

Morning Bus 2013-2025

In 2012, when I saw the parents of the victims of Sandy Hook, I saw myself. If they were living that nightmare, how are we all not living in a nightmare? We are deluding ourselves if we believe that life for our children has to be this way. My hope in making these photographs is to remind us of something we already know:
a safe childhood is a human right.

Dedicated to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, their parents and families.

December 14, 2012

Charlotte Bacon, 6 years old
Daniel Barden, 7 years old
Olivia Engel, 6 years old
Josephine Gay, 7 years old
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6 years old
Dylan Hockley, 6 years old
Madeleine F. Hsu, 6 years old
Catherine Hubbard, 6 years old
Chase Kowalski, 7 years old
Jesse Lewis, 6 years old
James Mattioli, 6 years old
Grace McDonnell, 7 years old
Emilie Parker, 6 years old
Jack Pinto, 6 years old
Noah Pozner, 6 years old
Caroline Previdi, 6 years old
Jessica Rekos, 6 years old
Avielle Richman, 6 years old
Benjamin Wheeler, 6 years old
Allison Wyatt, 6 years old
Rachel Marie D’Avino, 29 years old
Dawn Hochsprung, 47 years old
Nancy Lanza, 52 years old
Anne Marie Murphy, 52 years old
Lauren Rousseau, 30 years old
Mary Sherlach, 56 years old
Vicki Leigh Soto, 27 years old

09/30/2025

My new book, Morning Bus, is almost here but you can get an advanced copy at the ICP Book Fest, October 2-5 at the L’Artiere Editions table. I will be signing books on Saturday, October 4 from 4-5. ICP is at 84 Ludlow Street between Broome and Delancey.

If you can’t get make it to ICP, you can reserve a signed copy but going to the link in my linktree. Thank you so much!!

08/29/2025

Sonia, 2025. (First day of 7th grade)

Yesterday was Sonia’s first day of 7th grade. She came home talking about the drone picture they took of every student outside in the field forming the letters of the school. She told us which of her friends were in which classes and then added that she even made a new friend. By all appearances, it was a perfectly beautiful day.

The day before, in Minneapolis, the lives of scores of people were shattered when a 23-year-old opened fire into the sanctuary of the Annunciation Catholic Church.

Even on a good day, the world is a dangerous place. For example, I often think about how perilous driving is. All those people of varying degrees of driving experience in cars that range from brand new to 50 years old. I used to have a paralyzing fear of flying until I realized how incredibly safe air travel is compared to basically any other form of travel.

The school bus is another safe place. School bus accidents are very rare and fatalities even more uncommon. When you look at a school bus, you have to admit, it’s pretty ugly. We have studied everything: the orange-yellow color, the typeface, the reflectors for train conductors, even a stop sign on the side.

Over the years, it’s as if we all agreed on one thing—the safety of our children.

Schools have spent millions reinforcing doors and entryways. We have installed metal detectors and 8-foot fences. We are traumatizing a generation with lockdown drills that even have gunfire piped in on the PA system.

In nearly every other part of our lives, we have all agreed: government can be a remedy for the blunt cruelty and dangers of everyday life. But guns are a glaring exception. The Minneapolis shooting should shut our country down until our elected officials bring about change. Instead it’s just another item in the news cycle from which we eventually move on.

We are literally playing Russian Roulette with our children. In 2025, there have been 4 children killed and 29 wounded in 8 school shootings.

That number should be exactly zero. The most important thing on the minds of our children should be making new friends.

06/15/2025

My Dad and I, 1978 (SX-70 Polaroid promotion at K-Mart)

Happy Father’s Day to all you awesome Daddy’s out there. Especially to this guy right here who could not pass up an opportunity to have his picture taken. A true sign of contentment, if you ask me.

Just got off the phone with him 5 minutes ago. Thank you for working as band director and music teacher for 50 years so I could go see Star Wars 100 times. ❤️

05/24/2025

Carmela, on her 70th birthday, 2013

We want to thank all of you for your kind words and support over the last week. My mother-in-law was a very generous person and, while we knew that, hearing from so many different people what Carmela meant to them—from baking a crostata for a neighbor to making a wedding dress from scratch—has been very moving.

Before lunch, on February 24, 2013, I told Carmela that I wanted to make a good picture of her on her 70th birthday. My mother-in-law had a reputation of seeing imperfections down to the nano level. That talent had served her well as pattern maker at some of New York’s most prestigious Fashion houses, but she was also just Nonna to us and to her grandchildren. Not everything had to be perfect. For example, if one of her grandchildren winced at the expiration date on the milk from her refrigerator she would explain, “it’s still good, don’t worry.”

When I got the film back from that day, I remember being disappointed in the pictures. Not in her, I thought she had been magnificent. She was patient with me, she looked great, certainly not a day over 60. But looking back now, I can see that I was disappointed in myself somehow. Maybe I hadn’t lived up to my own grandiose idea of myself. Whatever it was, I regrettably never showed her the pictures.

I always believed Carmela was the perfectionist in the family, but considering it took me 12 years, 2 months, 29 days, and 4 hours to finally like this picture, I’m going to have to rethink that.

04/20/2025

Maura, Laine, Alyssa and Theo, 2025

Wishing all who observe a Happy Easter and Passover. Here are a few favorites from Ash Wednesday this year. I have been photographing this observance since 1997 and in 2018 published, Unto Dust, a monograph with L’Artiere Editions. You can still get some copies of the book at Picture house as well as at AIPAD this week.

04/01/2025

Generation Journey, 2000. Commission for

I am happy to announce that my online workshop, Virtual Narrative Road Trip is enrolling now! And if you sign up by April 18 you save $100 off the tuition.

By combining the work of all the students in this class, pictures taken in towns around the country, or the world, it’s as if we collectively took an epic road trip - without going anywhere. As we virtually drive around the world (your town), the goals of this intensive workshop are to learn all aspects of narrative portraiture, make peace with your anxieties and fears as you re-discover the world immediately around you. One scholarship available. Check out my linktree for more information!✨

Barbara Ellis (third from right) who still runs the Barbara Ellis Studio of Dance in Colorado Springs, founded the retiree dance group, Generation Journey. The group of dancers and singers that ranged in age from 55 to 84 years old, put on shows for charity on cruise ships and even Las Vegas. "We work together and we party together," Ellis said at the time. 🎩

03/28/2025

Virginia Senator Mark Warner, 2004. Commission for
"I can just say this. If this was the case of a military officer or an intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior, they would be fired." Senator Mark Warner, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled top U.S. Officials on Tuesday for their part in discussing military strikes on Yemen in a chat on the Signal messaging app.

11/12/2024

Being a humanist is like being a Mets fan - you know you are going to lose. But one doesn’t become a humanist to win or lose. We often discover that we are humanists by accident. We begin noticing, often at a young age, that we have the ability to see the beauty in others. It’s because of this uncanny ability that we find ourselves making art.

I would define a humanist as one who sees the inherent beauty in others. You see the beauty in an individual that not only do others not see, but the person themselves often does not see. It’s like seeing the invisible.

If you follow humanism to its logical conclusion, it could be summed up by saying that the beauty contained in any one person is enough to end all wars. Any of us. And while I do believe that that is the truth, we live in a world where some people’s lives are seen as more value than others, and it has been that way for a long time.

I’m not saying I’m the Buddha - people drive me crazy. I find humans disappointing all the time, but I also see the infinite good that people do, even in the ones who disappoint me. When I am challenged to see the beauty in people, I find it easier when I am behind a camera.

The problem is in thinking that doing our good work is contingent on one outcome or another. It’s not. If you have read this far, it’s possible you have been seeing the beauty in others for a long time and you will likely continue even while being disappointed. That part I don’t have to tell you.

What I do want to tell you is this: you seeing beauty in the world makes a difference even when you lose.

Special thank you to and for their invaluable help. Thank you to for helping me light up dark polling places and driving 200 miles around Northwestern Georgia.

1, 2 & 4: North Rome Precinct, Floyd County, Rome Welcome Center, Rome, Georgia

3: Precinct 1, Polk County, Aragon City Hall, Aragon, Georgia

5 & 6: South Rome Precinct, Floyd County, Lovejoy Baptist Church, Rome, Georgia

8: Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center, Fairburn, Georgia

7 & 9: Acworth 1A precinct, Cobb County, Northstar Church, Kennesaw, GA

11/03/2024

Election District 52, New York, New York, 2008. From the series, We the People.

Tuesday, I head to great state of Georgia to photograph poll workers and voters for . Over the last 20 years I have photographed 10 elections in 6 states.

Regardless of the outcome Tuesday, history will unfold before our eyes. The amount of misinformation flying around is staggering and disconcerting to say the least, but of all the misinformation out there, singling out and harassing poll workers in particular, blaming them for the outcome of the election in any way, I find to be the most heartbreaking and ludicrous. At over 700,000+ (in 2020), these are the people who protect our democracy, dutifully counting every vote, regardless of their own political affiliation.

Maybe you are one of them! If not, thank your poll worker.

If you haven’t already done so, get out and VOTE!

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