Review in CT CREATIVE

Airen Miller Photography

Written by Adam Durso in Featured Articles, Photography on Sep 23rd, 2009

When waxing emotionally nostalgic through the pages of a wedding album, it is not uncommon to find that the most intensely warm memories are triggered by the strangest, most subtle things. The lens of Photographer Airen Miller has provided a close up for all of those intrinsically meaningful subtleties, and encapsulates the perfect love, euphoria, innocence and youthfulness inherent in any wedding day.

Miller’s work, which connects modern art sensitivity and an eye for lush colors with photojournalistic sensibilities, can be described as at once vibrant and elegant as it is haunting, and has been included in several publications including Connecticut Bride and Hartford Magazine, with a recent feature on The Today Show with Kathy Lee Gifford.

Use of lighting and shadow grant his photography a kind of surreal, noir-like ambiance, while the various askew angles capture the conceptual uniqueness of the backdrops making place a story teller, as if every light, stone tower and weathered oak tree exists to accentuate the experience of the bride and groom.

There is an air of distance to many of Miller’s subjects, as though while physically in front of his camera they have channeled some perfectly intimate and euphoric, however transient place some immeasurable distance away. His photography freezes that place and contains it in all of its depth and intensity.

Airan’s photography extends far beyond wedding vows and chapel bells. His work also chronicles years of travel. Around the world he captures that same opaque uniqueness and conceptual nuance with the same attention to bright, saturating colors.

Miller additionally branches out with energy and style to celebrity photography, as he recently worked a photo shoot of up and coming Long Island based, leather clad indie rock singer Gina Cutillo in New York City. The shoot coincides with the release of Cutillo’s third album.

More Information about Airen, and his portfolio, and blog can be viewed on the web at www.amillerphoto.com/