Sandro Miller: The Sandro Experience
International photographer Sandro Miller will open his studio and home for a behind-the-scenes experience of his life and work through his most iconic projects. The bidder and guests, up to 8 people, will join Sandro and MoCP Executive Director Natasha Egan for:
• studio tour and look at Sandro’s current and past projects
• tour of Sandro & Claude-Aline Nazaire’s home and art collection
• roundtable discussion between Sandro and Natasha Egan about his 10 most iconic images, complete with wine, cheese, and nibbles.
All participants will take away 2 signed books by Sandro and the bidder will be treated to a portrait session with Sandro, and a beautiful 20 x 24 art print.
Dates for this experience will be coordinated by MoCP, the artist and his studio, and the primary bidder.
Sandro Miller (American, b. 1958)
Sandro Miller is a still-photographic and video artist with an especial sensitivity and mastery of studio lighting. Miller studied fine-art photography as a college undergraduate student but believes that the experience awarded him an advanced degree. If his art-life was liquid, Miller would say, without hesitation or overstatement, that he searched for creative vessels to pour himself into. Across his more than forty year photographic-art and commercial-work careers, he has allowed his work to be unashamedly guided by the ideas and examples of: Richard Avedon, Walker Evans, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Sebastião Salgado, August Sander and Fazal Sheikh. In the studio or on location, he has become a master of lighting and uses light to express and refine the dialogues of life in our time.
Sandro Miller lives in Chicago but photographs globally. Across thirteen books, numerous awards and a multitude of gallery and museums exhibitions, he can be defined as husband, father, artist, author, documentarian, publisher, lecturer, teacher, humanist, philanthropist, and guidance counselor (without title). And, because he lends his skills and studio pro bono to charitable groups, he is also a social advocate for causes having to do with gender, race, national origin, homelessness, childcare, arts advocacy and arts education.
His pictures can be black & white or color, film as well as digital files, large and small format, still or video. Further, Miller’s work is launched under the spell of a location’s uncertainty or, at other times, within the control of a studio’s refinement. Accordingly, he has created serial imagery of: art-historical respectful whimsey (in MALKOVICH); formal racial expressivism (in HAIR); revelatory cultural access (in BIKERS); a political narrative (in CUBAN PORTRAITS) and also (in CUBAN ATHLETES); tribal portraits within a hidden culture (in PAPA NEW GUINEA); improbable floating eroticism (in JOFFREY DANCERS) and more.
The book publication list begins in 1994 and continues with more this year and next. Of special interest, thus far, he would cite: AMERICAN BIKERS (1998 / Schirmer/Mosel), SANDRO:VERONA FIGURE E RITRATTI (2002 / Cierre Edition), IMAGINE CUBA 1999-2007 (2008 / Edizioni Charta), EL MATADOR JOSELITO: A PICTORIAL NOVEL (2009 / Edition Charta), SANDRO RAW, STEPPENWOLF (2012), THE MALKOVICH SESSIONS (2016 / Glitterati Inc), MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH, HOMAGE TO THE MASTERS, (2019 / SKIRA) CROWNS (2020 / SKIRA) A NEW AMERICAN LANDSCAPE (2023/ LEICA LISSE)
A partial list of exhibitions in museums and galleries were in: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Zagreb, Brussels, Warsaw, Arles France, Brussels, Havana, Munich, Verona. Bulgaria, Latvia, Madrid, Malaga, Paris. Reviews, interviews, features and essays were published in Musée Magazine, Smithsonian, Huffington Post, Interiors, Graphic, Russian Esquire, BBC News, Stern, The New Yorker, American Photo, Eyemazing, ABC News, Communication Art and View Camera.
At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France, in July 2011, Miller received a Saatchi & Saatchi Best New Director award. In 2014 and 2015 at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Lucie Foundation honored Sandro with the International Photographer of the Year award for his achievements in photography. Sandro Miller is married to artist Claude-Aline Nazaire and is the father of two children, Nathan and Natalia. He was born in Elgin, Illinois.
