Notice Board

Art NOW series featuring David Miller
Other Suns
November 19 | Noon | Southern Alberta Art Gallery
(601 Third Avenue South, Lethbridge)

In conjunction with his exhibition Other Suns at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, David Miller reflects on his works made with light-sensitive paper and his ongoing “live photographs.” In this talk, Miller discusses how light becomes both subject and medium, situating Other Suns within current dialogues on latency, perception, and the unstable boundaries between presence, memory, and disappearance.

David Miller is a Canadian artist and educator whose photographic practice engages with themes of memory, time and duration, impermanence, the unrepresentable, and the interplay between presence and absence. Miller has developed an internationally recognized body of work that foregrounds photography’s potential as a contemplative and commemorative medium. Positioned at the intersections of documentary, relational and conceptual art, his work approaches light, and space, as a vehicle for philosophical inquiry, treating the photographic image as both a record and a resonance. His long-term series at Holocaust memorial sites, including The Museum, Visitors and Conservators, examine the ethics of witnessing and the photograph as a site of emotional and temporal compression. Widely exhibited across North America, Europe, and beyond, Miller received the Canada Council Prize in Photography. Currently, he is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge.

Image: David Miller, Massive Range, Banff, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.