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((Short description|South African photographer))
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'''Eric Miller''' (born 1955) is a professional photographer based in South Africa. Miller was born in [[Cape Town]] but spent his childhood in [[Johannesburg]]. After studying psychology and working in the corporate world for several years, Miller was driven by the injustices of [[apartheid]] to use his hobby, photography, to document opposition to apartheid by becoming a full-time photographer.<!--<ref>((cite web|title=Then and Now|url=http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/|publisher=Duke|accessdate=15 January 2014))</ref> --><ref name="thenandnow53">"Eric Miller"; in Paul Weinberg, ed. ''Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers'' (Johannesburg: Highveld, 2007; ((ISBN|0-620-39407-2))), p.53.</ref>

==Career==
Miller began his work as a freelance photographer with a collective called [[Afrapix]], which used photography to document the realities of apartheid and the resistance to the regime during the 1980s.<ref name="thenandnow53" /> Miller first got the attention of the international wire services with a photograph of a mineworker and his partner in a room of a mineworkers' hostel. The photo was particularly meaningful as the unions were fighting for family housing for mine workers, rather than single-sex hostels which forced workers to leave their families behind to make a living. Soon after, Miller was hired for his first international lead, taking photographs of the 1987 strike in which over 300,000 mine workers across South Africa walked off the job. The majority of Miller's work early in his career was the documentation of strikes, protests and funerals which were manifestations of people's opposition to the apartheid regime and contributed to its eventual downfall.((Citation needed|date=January 2014)) For three years from 1988, Miller worked for [[Reuters]].<ref name="thenandnow53" />

During the early 1990s, as the world witnessed the crumbling of the [[apartheid]] government, the subject matter of Miller's work changed from protests and funerals to [[Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa|the negotiations that would eventually lead to a democratic South Africa]]. Once the transition to a post-apartheid government began, the focus of his and others' photography was on transformation issues such as health, education and labour.<ref name="thenandnow53" />

After [[Nelson Mandela]]'s release from prison in February 1990, Miller gained access to countries across Africa that had previously been closed to South African passport holders. The first place Miller travelled to after Mandela's release was [[South Sudan]], to document [[1998 Sudan famine|the famine that occurred there in the 1990s]]. He has pursued photographic projects in 28 different countries including [[Botswana]], [[Cuba]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]], [[Liberia]], [[Namibia]], [[Nigeria]], [[Sierra Leone]], [[Eritrea]], [[Rwanda]], [[Senegal]], [[Sudan]], [[Uganda]], [[Vietnam]] and [[Zimbabwe]].((Citation needed|date=January 2014))

Although Miller spent much time and effort documenting [[South African general election, 1994|South Africa's first democratic election]] during April 1994, he was also able to travel to [[Rwanda]] to document the last 10 days of [[Rwandan genocide|the genocide there]]. He then documented the conditions of the (primarily [[Tutsi]]) victims of the atrocity who fled to [[refugee camp]]s in Tanzania. His work reflects not only the internal chaos and violence caused by the genocide in Rwanda, but also the lasting effects for those who were forced to flee, and the problems faced by the neighbouring countries to which they fled. Miller's collection of photographs from Rwanda was more recently((When|date=January 2014)) used in a project which he presented at the [[University of Cape Town]] during a symposium on post-apartheid and post-genocide transitions and violence in South Africa and Rwanda.((Citation needed|date=January 2014))

During Miller's numerous visits to Uganda, he focused on the devastating effects of the war waged by [[Joseph Kony]] and the [[Lord's Resistance Army]] (LRA) on every sector of the population. He documented the issue of child soldiers, and spent time getting to know young adults who had escaped from the LRA after being forced, as children, to become its soldiers.<ref>Tanya Farber, "[http://mg.co.za/article/2007-07-06-the-fitness-myths The fitness myths]", ''Mail and Guardian'', 6 July 2007. Accessed 20 January 2014.</ref>

Miller is currently a member of the [[Panos Pictures]] photo agency.<ref>[http://www.panos.co.uk/stories/1-5-1429-1923-EMI/Eric-Miller/ Page about Miller], [[Panos Pictures]]. Accessed 20 January 2014.</ref>

==Work with news outlets==
Miller's photographs have been published in many print publications around the world. He has spent several years working for the wire services such as the [[Associated Press]] and [[Reuters]].<ref name="thenandnow53" /><ref>((Cite web |title=About – Eric Miller Archive |url=https://eric.co.za/about/ |access-date=2023-05-15 |language=en-ZA))</ref> He has completed assignments for ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Los Angeles Times]], [[The Boston Globe|Boston Globe]]'', and several Washington D.C. area newspapers.<ref name="thenandnow53" />

==Exhibitions==
Miller has been involved in several photographic exhibitions.

His photography was shown in ''Then and Now'', an exhibition which travelled to Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Melbourne and Brisbane, and is housed at [[Duke University]].<ref>((cite web | url = http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/ | accessdate = 19 January 2014 | publisher = [[Duke University Libraries]] | title = Then & Now – Eight South African Photographers | quote = An exhibition of 160 photographs mounted in 5 venues at Duke University. South African photographer Paul Weinberg conceived and curated Then & Now which is ((sic|comprised |hide=y|of)) black and white and color photographs from 8 South African documentary photographers. Twenty photographs were selected from each photographer, 10 made under apartheid and 10 photographs made after the historic democratic elections of 1994. The photographs in this exhibit and hundreds of other images by photographers documenting African social conditions under apartheid are preserved in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library as part of the South African Photographs Collection. <!-- Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. --> | archive-date = 11 October 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181011132146/https://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/ | url-status = dead ))</ref><ref>((cite web | url = http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/family-matters.html | last = Weinberg | first = Paul | accessdate = 19 January 2014 | publisher = [[Duke University Libraries]] | title = Family Matters | quote = Miller has continued to tell arresting photojournalistic stories; and in a highly personal form of expression | archive-date = 7 March 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130307054102/http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/family-matters.html | url-status = dead ))</ref><ref>((cite web|url = http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=21804 | accessdate = 19 January 2014 | publisher = [[University of South Africa]] | title = then & now photography exhibition | quote = A highly acclaimed photographic exhibition featuring the work of eight South African documentary photographers is shown at Unisa Art Gallery from 31 March until 8 May 2009. Entitled 'Then and Now' the collection comprises photographs taken both before and after South Africa's transition to democracy. The project has been initiated and curated by the photographer Paul Weinberg. The other contributors are David Goldblatt, George Hallett, Eric Miller, Cedric Nunn, Guy Tillim, Graeme Williams, and Gisele Wulfsohn. Almost all of them were members of Afrapix, the collective photo agency that played a central role in documenting political conflict in South Africa in the 1980s and early 1990s.))</ref> The project, curated by fellow South African photographer Paul Weinberg in 2008, presented the work of several Afrapix photographers and contrasted their work under apartheid with work done post-apartheid.

Miller contributed to the exhibition "The Nevergiveups."<ref group="n">This has its own website at [http://thenevergiveups.org/ thenevergiveups.org] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201111028/http://thenevergiveups.org/ |date=1 February 2014 )).</ref> The work chronicles the strength of grandmothers in [[Khayelitsha]] township who have been forced by the consequences of the [[HIV/AIDS]] pandemic to unexpectedly become primary caregivers responsible for the raising of their grandchildren orphaned by HIV/AIDS. The exhibition was shown at [[Katzen Arts Center]], [[American University]] in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] D.C. and [[Old Dominion University]] in [[Virginia]] in late 2013.<ref>Maggie Barrett, "[http://www.american.edu/media/news/20130829_Museum-Explores-Agriculture-as-Art.cfm US museum explores agriculture as art]", American University, 29 August 2013. Accessed 19 January 2014.</ref><ref>"[http://www.odu.edu/about/odu-publications/insideodu/2013/10/03/morenews3 ‘Nevergiveups’ visit includes photo exhibition and book launch]", Old Dominion University, 3 October 2013. Accessed 19 January 2014.</ref>

==Publications==
Miller has worked on assignments for a range of organisations including the United Nations, the [[World Bank]], [[Amnesty International]] and the [[Red Cross]];<ref name="thenandnow53" /> and [[World Economic Forum]], the [[World Health Organization]], local health departments and South African and International NGOs. His educational video on HIV/AIDS has been distributed for viewing at high schools around the Western Cape. Miller's story on counteracting stereotypes of Islamic education appeared in ''[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]''.((Vague|date=January 2014))<!-- In which issue of CHE? -->

==Books with contributions by Miller==
*Eric Miller (photos). ''Thula Baba.'' Johannesburg: [[Ravan Press]], 1987. ((ISBN|0869753231)). According to the title page: "This story was written after many discussions between groups of adult learners and teachers in literary classes. It is based on the lives of some domestic workers in a city. The photographs were taken by Eric Miller (Afrapix) to illustrate the text."<ref>This text is reproduced in [http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm19081174 the catalogue record] for the book at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] libraries.</ref><ref group="n">A review of the book that first appeared in ''Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity'' vol&nbsp;2 (1988), pp.&nbsp;64–66 can be found [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10130950.1988.9675019 here] (Taylor & Francis). (Pp.&nbsp;65–66 of this are behind a paywall.)</ref>
*Eric Miller (photos). ''Thula Baba. Vom Leben einiger Hausangestellter in einer südafrikanischen Grossstadt.'' Erlangen: Verlag der Evangelisch-lutherischen Mission, 1989. ((ISBN|3-87214-231-3)). A German-language version.
*Eric Miller (photos). ''Thula Baba: «Pleure pas mon bébé».'' Lausanne: Éditions d'en bas, 1990. ((ISBN|2-8290-0123-0)). A French-language version.<ref group="n">An abridged version ("preview") is available [https://books.google.com/books?id=xlj02uyoDlMC here] at Google Books. What is visible here does not identify the photographer.</ref>
*Görrel Espeluend and Jesper Strudsholm (text), Eric Miller (photos). ''Reality Bites: An African Decade.'' Cape Town: Double Storey, 2003. ((ISBN|978-1-919930-22-0)). The photography challenges prevalent stereotypes about Africa. It presents the stories of those who make the most of desperate circumstances to make positive changes in their communities.
*Gillian Warren-Brown and Yazeed Fakier (text), Eric Miller (photos). ''Cape Town Uncovered: A People's City.'' Cape Town: Double Storey, 2005. ((ISBN|978-1-919930-75-6)). Demonstrates the realities of the life and people of Cape Town. It serves as a contrast to photographic projects that typically only show the landscapes and scenery of [[Cape Town]] and do not highlight the beauty of the individuals living there.
*Eric Miller (photos), Karen Jeynes (text). ''Fab: Mother City Queer Projects.'' Roggebaai: Umuzi, 2007. ((ISBN|978-1-415200-35-3)). Documents the Mother City Queer Project, in particular the group’s yearly party which began in 1994 under a new democratic South Africa.  
*Paul Weinberg, ed. ''Then and Now: Eight South African Photographers.'' Johannesburg: Highveld, 2007. ((ISBN|0-620-39407-2)). Photographs taken during and after apartheid by Miller, [[David Goldblatt]], [[George Hallett (photographer)|George Hallett]], [[Cedric Nunn]], [[Guy Tillim]], [[Paul Weinberg]], [[Graeme Williams]] and [[Gisèle Wulfsohn]]. Miller's photographs occupy pages 52 to 69.
*[[Leonie Joubert]] (text), Eric Miller (photos). ''The Hungry Season: Feeding Southern Africa’s Cities.'' Johannesburg: Picador Africa, 2012. ((ISBN|1770102299)).
*Jo-Anne Smetherham (text), Eric Miller (photos). ''The Nevergiveups: The Extraordinary Life Stories of Six South African Grandmothers.'' N.p.: [[CreateSpace]], 2013. ((ISBN|1492756334)).

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*((official website|eric.co.za))
*[http://www.panos.co.uk/stories/1-5-1429-1923-EMI/Eric-Miller/ Miller's profile at Panos Pictures]
*[http://library.duke.edu/exhibits/thenandnow/photos/miller/index.html Then and Now – Eric Miller] at Duke University Libraries
*[http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/eric-miller Eric Miller] at South African History Online

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