Neil A Miller is a creative photographer working to capture the many fleeting aspects of life. He started out as a thoroughbred racing photographer while completing a BFA in photography at Ohio University. He went on to be a US Navy photographer in the Atlantic Fleet Combat Camera Group and after his discharge moved to Phoenix with his wife Marilyn in 1970. His first position in Phoenix was at Channel 10 as a News Photographer, a position he kept for 39 years. Neil completed his MFA in photography at Arizona State University in the 1970’s and also participated as an assistant in the Ansel Adams/Friends of Photography Workshops and studied with Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Jerry Uelsmann, Frederick Sommer, Garry Winogrand, W. Eugene Smith, Linda Connor among others.

 

Neil’s teaching career includes being an instructor at the ASU College of Architecture for 10 years. He also taught at Mesa Community College and Scottsdale Community College. For the past ten years he has taught a Street Photography Workshop at Art Intersection in Gilbert. 

 

Beyond the USA, Neil’s travels on the job include Peru during a major earthquake, NATO exercises in the North Atlantic, Mexico City earthquake and the Berlin Wall when it came down. Some of the locations traveled independently include Europe, England, Egypt and India.

 

Currently Neil is President Emeritus of Arizona Photography Alliance a group he helped establish and a TEOE Associate Photographer.