Hello. My name’s Ian Miller, welcome to my website, home to updates on both my personal and professional activities.
Photo by alexlawrencephotography.com
Many of you would’ve found yourself landing here looking for my photography pages. For ten years I worked as a freelancer in the music industry, capturing photos of live shows and off-stage promo and documentary shots. I’ve worked with artists big and small directly, for labels, A&R, management companies and directly for magazines. My work was been published Worldwide online and in print media, on everywhere from grass-roots giants like DrownedInSound.com to publications like Rolling Stone magazine.
Life in the photography game also led me to be a writer, so I found myself work as a critic reviewing shows and albums, but also ended up writing profiles of artists from interviews I conducted. Strangely, in some ways I’ve had most success as a writer with several cover articles being published – a point that bemuses as I didn’t study English past GCSE!
The work and life associated with the industry was always mixed in fortunes, when things click and work there’s nowhere I’d rather be than standing at the front of a venue of festival stage taking photos of kick-ass-brilliant bands. But always you’re busting several guts and getting little sleep for little to no financial rewards. Mix that with a few recent health problems, it was no longer viable to continue in this field of work. It was never going to be a viable career that would fund what I wish to now be taking from life. Highlights of my work can be viewed on my photography page, or you can buy some prints at my online store.
Whilst I’m still – and always will be – passionate about photography, my day job for all this time has been working in a prominent secondary school in East London. First as an ICT Technician/co-network manager, and then as a Multimedia Technician, overseeing websites, intranets, developing an internal online video system, managing a series of information plasma displays and making films to both promote school initiatives and for use in lessons. It’s in this direction that I’m now focussing my freelance work.
Most recently I’ve worked as the editor of in-house films for whatsonstage.com TV – What’s on Stage is one of the most prominent publications and online presences for everything related to theatre in the UK and specifically London’s thriving West End. I’ve always had a love of theatre since I was young and have always maintained a healthy attendance at the work being produced in and around town, so the opportunity to make short films on what’s going on in this field is one that I’m relishing and absolutely loving.
Over the years I’ve also liked to have a dabble in numerous areas of production, I love to create. I get a kick out of coding/designing websites, I’ve managed a hospital radio station, I’ve directed technical crews on theatrical productions.. I like having many skills and strings to bow. I’m also a proud GEEK and apple ‘evangelist’ – though I’m quick to point out that my favourite fruity company are fallible, but when they get it right (which on the whole, they do), there’s nothing better in the land of tech.
In recent months the work side of my life has taken a forced back seat, hence the sudden dry up of postings on this site. I’m not ready to publicly reason why this has happened, but whilst things calm down I’m taking my time, working out what I want to do with my life and take from the World in return.
…SO. At this point I will stop babbling. You should now know a bit about who I am, what I’ve done and what I like. Can I thank you for landing here – however it is you’ve come to click onto the page – and hope you find something of interest. I will use this space to post updates on me (yawn.. i know), my projects and to share and comment on things that interest me. You might not agree with everything I publish, but that’s ok. The one thing people so often forget is that they’re allowed to have their own opinion, and so long as you’ll allow me to have mine, then all’s fine with the World.
Rock on,
Ian Miller
