Street Seen

For ML Miller, street photography is defined as images that are created “for art or inquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents.”

Street Seen: A Present Narrative is a partial showing of the photographic work – a present narrative – that has captured ML’s attention over the past couple of years.  Her ongoing work is focused on the Grand Strand, a 60-mile arc of white beaches from Little River to the saltwater ecosystem and rice field of Winyah Bay.  

Famed Myrtle Beach, SC is a relocation magnet for retirees, becoming one of the fastest growing cities in the US.  A hot spot for tourists arriving from the North and Midwest, the East coast’s first warm water beaches attracts over 20.15 million visitors, generating over $15 billion in revenue.  Dubbed “The Redneck Rivera” and “Dirty Myrtle,” the coastal city attracts a rare mix of people - day trippers to retirees – impacting a coastal landscape with a failing infrastructure. 

Street Seen: A Present Narrative is focused on the tourist eyes, the “man-on –the-street” and the photographer as collaborators in an urban, yet exotic drama. 

Street Seen: A Present Narrative Gallery Opening

Thursday, November 20, 6-9 PM

918 Lady Street

Columbia, SC