Mike Miller is a photographer based in Southwest Virginia

Mike Miller and his horse Nothing / Photo by Elinzia Rouse

More than a decade ago, using only his iPhone camera with no added special digital effects, Mike Miller began making masked self-portraits. His photographs extend the boundaries into a surreal territory filled with weirdlings and shapeshifters who breathe smoke and fire to ward off the darkness

“I’ve always covered my face a lot even when I was younger.,” he said during a recent interview. “Maybe I think it will hide the other side of me. Or maybe it’s a way to let people know I have another side without letting it out.”

Mike’s first one-person show war featured from March 10 to May 16 2023 at Create Appalachia Center for Art & Technology, 225 W Center Street, Suite 115, Kingsport, TN 37660.

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