Selected Works:  A Sense of Place and other images.  Photographs by ML Miller   

ML Miller hangs photographs from her documentary, A Sense of Place, about her hometown Summerton, SC, a small agricultural town where the Briggs v. Elliott school desegregation case originated.  As the first of the five cases later joined under Brown v. the Board of Education, testimony in Briggs overturned the separate, but equal clause of the 14^th Amendment of the US Constitution and legally dismantled segregation.  These photographs provide a timely portrait of a race relations in a small rural town; imagery that resonates across our national landscape today.

Such a personal story—filled with the intimacy of families bound with families, black with white, white with black, the long history and disparities of race, the desire for equal educational attainment, the desire to win the fight of social justice, and most importantly,  the desire for identity, respect and forgiveness.

Miller focused her camera on the people, on the separate, but unequal lives, and how black and whites struggle to came together.  Where doors opened, she focused on their educational, religious, and cultural life; on their continuing public and private struggles — their shared Sense of Place.

Color photographs and abstract photographs from her series, Interference, hang on the opposite wall of The Hallway, providing a contrast of the photographer’s unique repertoire.

A must-see show at The Hallway, 701 Whaley till April 28th.