Chris Miller bio<\/a>]<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m really lucky the boat that I fish on the guys are really supportive\u201d of his photography, he said. \u201cSo they allow me to kind of duck away for a moment or two to grab my camera and take a couple pictures and then put it away and go back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2014 and 2015, he also got the chance to shoot commercial fisheries in the Brittany region of France, which provides a nice counterpoint to his Alaska work.<\/p>\n
The most obvious difference is that they were day fisheries, Miller said. \u201cThey usually only fish a few days a week, depends on the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
There were differences too in the management of the resource, like the lack of species and gender restrictions.<\/p>\n
But there were similiarities, too. Miller worked on the small islands of Houat, Ho\u00ebdic and Belle-\u00cele.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the islands, there was maybe 20 fishermen living on the island and maybe just a couple hundred people in total,\u201d he said. They faced similar problems to smaller Southeast communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the island Ho\u00ebdic, the children population was going down enough that they were considering having to close the school just like they had to do in Tenakee,\u201d Miller said. (Tenakee\u2019s school is now open again.)<\/p>\n
The Rookery will display a different side of Miller\u2019s work. One wall will contain skiing and snowboarding photos he takes during the winter. The other wall will show photos from a trip to Japan where he was able to capture the tuna auction at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, the largest open air fishmarket in the world, and from the Canadian Arctic where he went on assignment for the New York Times.<\/p>\n
Miller described his process as sketching. On a weeklong shoot, he can take between 6,000 and 8,000 photos allowing him \u201cto work through an idea fully,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I\u2019m, say, photographing fishermen taking fish out of the net, usually as I initially approach it the light won\u2019t be right or the position of the fishermen or the size of the fish or whatever it is,\u201d he said. \u201cThere will be multiple elements I\u2019m trying to get in one shot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fishing, because it\u2019s repetitive, allows him to return to same scene and work out different angles and aspects until he finally gets the shot he wants, whereas in skiing or snowboarding, \u201cthe conditions are only right for just that one moment so I kind of have to be,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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