Stuart Miller photographer and director, Sydney and London
In 2010, Capture’s Top Emerging Photographers competition made Stuart Miller visible as an advertising, portrait, and editorial photographer. He won places in all three categories. At the same time, he began a self-imposed regime of travelling back and forth between Sydney and London to build his expertise. “I’d started shooting in Australia and realised that I really needed to go where there are some of my favourite photographers in the world, and went to London to assist.” By 2013, he had achieved his goal, stopped assisting, and joined FLIPP Management. He continued to work between Sydney and London, though, until 2020 when COVID intervened. Until last year, he had been working on between two and four shoots a year in the UK, establishing himself as one of the go-to photographers for drinks advertising, with a number of whisky brands, in particular, in his roster. “Obviously 2020 ended that whole section of my UK and Europe work. Hopefully it will come back, but right now I’m just concentrating on Australian work.”
Miller counts his personal work as the key to his development. “When I was an emerging photographer, all of my personal work was going into my book to establish myself as a commercial photographer. I needed to do that to build my portfolio and style for my commercial work. Now I’ve reached a point where the balance has gone the other way. I’ve built a commercial book, created a commercial aesthetic for myself, so when I felt I had a very clear direction about where that was happening, my personal work became more
