TCF Ep. 462 - Roland Miller

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Roland Miller, a Chicago native, studied photography at Utah State University earning his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees. For 14 years, he taught photography at Brevard Community College (now Eastern Florida State College) in Cocoa, Florida, where he was first exposed to many nearby NASA launch sites. He then taught at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, Illinois for six years before becoming dean of its Communication Arts, Humanities and Fine Arts division in 2008. Miller retired from higher education in 2018 to work full-time on his aerospace photography. In 2016, Miller’s project, Abandoned in Place: Preserving America’s Space History, documenting the deactivated and repurposed space launch and test facilities around the United States was published by the University of New Mexico Press. Images from Miller’s Space Shuttle documentary project, Orbital Planes, have been exhibited at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida and at The National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida Miller is currently completing a project, Interior Space, with Italian Astronaut, Paolo Nespoli, to collaboratively photograph the interior of the International Space Station. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This is the body annex, and this is the candid frame.
0:11.2	On numerous occasions, I've been lucky enough to get away from the city, away from all the noise, both audible and visual.
0:19.9	And when I was out in the desert or the mountains or in a small
0:23.6	town with no electricity, I looked up at the night sky and was often left dumbstruck. Without the
0:32.0	smog or the light pollution, I have been in awe of the endless pinpoints of light. I've often thought that this
0:41.5	was the very same sky that my ancestors, whose names I'll never know, looked upon when they were
0:48.0	alive. And I wondered if they had felt the same sense of wonder that I was feeling in that moment.
0:56.1	The moon and the stars have fascinated human beings for hundreds of thousands of years,
1:02.2	but it's only been in the past 60 or so years that human beings were finally able to launch
1:08.8	themselves into the heavens and eventually put men on the moon.
1:14.2	And as monumental as those events were, what was once deemed impossible is now considered routine.
1:23.2	And so the evidence of those accomplishments, the launching pads, the mission control rooms,
1:28.2	the offices, if they haven't been repurposed, they've been left to deteriorate and be
1:34.2	reclaimed by nature.
1:37.3	Photographer Roland Miller has made it his life's work to document these sites of the Gemini,
1:43.3	Mercury, and Apollo space programs.
1:45.7	His photographs collected in his book, Abandoned in Place,
1:50.2	reveals the inherent beauty and the historic importance of a time and place
1:55.3	when people turned one of humanity's greatest dreams into a reality.
2:01.3	And we pulled up, and I got out of the car, and I immediately knew that this was something
2:06.9	that needed to be documented.
2:08.2	You know, it's historic, and yet it was being abandoned with, in some, in some in some cases good reason but still I felt like
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