Miller, Krzysztof
Krzysztof Miller (1962-2016) was a photographer and reporter famous for his characteristic, emotionally committed style and the coverages of the arm conflicts, revolutions, and social disasters.
From 1976 to 1986 Miller was a sportsman and a champion in diving in Polish People's Republic. From 1986 he was a photographer associated with the second circuit. His photographs were published in the independent dissident press and bulletins. From 1988 he collaborated with the Independent Students' Association. He documented, among other events, many happenings by the Gallery of Maniacal Activities in Łódź. In 1989 he had become a photo reporter in "Gazeta Wyborcza" where he worked the whole next decade till 2000, when he had to slow down due to his health problems.
In the 1990s Miller made his career traveling the world with the journalist Wojciech Jagielski and documenting wars, revolutions, and other breakthrough events. His photo reportages covered events in the Balkans, Romania, Georgia, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and South Africa. The distinctive feature of Miller's photographs was the concern for the situation of the people and the empathy toward them. Such a committed style of photojournalism made him famous in Poland and abroad. In 2000 he was a member of the jury of the World Press Photo contest. After that year Miller started studying at the Film School in Łódź, where he co-founded groups Slowphoto and Artists 24h. During the studies in Łódź Miller developed the artistic side of his earlier journalist photographs. The experiments with the photographic techniques resulted in Miller's participation in many exhibitions in 2009 and 2014.
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