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"Capitalist Realism", Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece
EXHIBITIONS
(* solo exhibition)
Unseen (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 2024
Photo Basel (Basel, Switzerland) - 2024
Cascina Roma Fotografia (Milan, Italy) - 2024
Museum of Tomorrow, Permanent Collection (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil) - 2023
Art Basel Miami (Miami, USA) - 2023
World Bank HQ (Washington DC, USA)* - 2023
Photo Basel (Basel, Switzerland) - 2023
"Resistance Doesn't Walk Alone" (LSE, London, UK) - 2022*
Being - La Terre Comme Événement (HAS, Maçao, Portugual) - 2022
Bletchley Park Museum (Milton Keynes, UK) - 2022
World Urban Forum (Katowice, Poland) - 2022
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) - 2022*
Creative Brain Week (Dublin, Ireland) - 2022
"Insurgent Citizens" (Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, ZA) - 2021
Human Rights Film Festival (Berlin, Germany) - 2021
Troubled Waters (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany) - 2021
"We, Capitalists" (Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany) - 2020
Appalachian State University (Boone, NC, USA) - 2020*
Global Conference on Citizenship (Rennes, France) - 2020
"Passports" (LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos, Nigeria) - 2019 
Geopolis (Brussels, Belgium) - 2019*
"State of Extremes" (Holon Design Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel) - 2019
Visa Pour L'Image (Screening) (Perpignan, France) - 2019
Photoville NYC (Brooklyn, NY, USA) - 2019
Zingst Horizons Environmental Photo Festival (Zingst, Germany) - 2019
Cultuurcentrum De Factorijj (Brussels, Belgium) - 2019*
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography Biennale (Greece) - 2018
Xynteo (Oslo, Norway) - 2018
Theaterfestival (Munich, Germany) - 2018
Umbria World Fest (Foligno, Italy) - 2018
Festival Della Fotografica Etica (Lodi, Italy) - 2018
Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (Bonn, Germany) - 2018*
PhotoBlock (London, UK) - 2017Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney, Australia) - 2018*
Story of Space (Goa, India) - 2017
Marion Center for Photographic Arts (Santa Fe, NM, USA) - 2017*
Gordon Institute of Business Science (Johannesburg, South Africa) - 2016*
Wits University (Johannesburg, South Africa) - 2016*
AWARDS
2019 UN SDG Action Award Finalist
Rory Peck Trust Grant Recipient
ACCOLADES
"This year’s winner Johnny Miller was, however, not a difficult choice. His project, ‘Unequal Scenes’. brings a new visual vocabulary to an issue we are all aware of. These are powerful aerial images confirming something we sense but often turn our back on – the painfully close proximity within which wealth and poverty co-exist, the blatant inequalities that society does little to redress." 
- Dewi Lewis, juror, Center Launch Awards

"Photographer/activist Johnny Miller has developed a very clever, fresh strategy to make us aware of the still startling divide among rich and poor, white and black, in post-Apartheid South Africa. By using a drone to photograph social/geographical borderlines in multiple communities, he delivers the information with instant clarity and visual impact. And by writing compelling, fact-filled captions for each photograph, he encourages deep reading and understanding about the current state of affairs and inequality in these still-divided communities." 
- Jim Casper, Editor-In-Chief, LensCulture

"Johnny’s application of drone photography to the [Slumscapes] project broke new ground for the Thomson Reuters and thisisplace.org, offering fresh and compelling new views of the difficulties facing communities who live without security of tenure as well as highlighting some of the entrepreneurial and vital contributions of global informal economies. Slumscapes has been widely shared in publications world wide, including the New York Times, L’Internazionale and many others." 
- Paola Totaro, Editor, Place, Thomson Reuters Foundation, London

"Unequal Scenes has garnered significant attention in our office – it achieves an undeniably real, objective portrayal of inequality in South Africa. Personally, I haven’t seen anything else quite like it. Our bureau is publishing an in-depth study on forward-looking economic policies that combat the problem of inequality in Africa. We would be delighted to feature photos from Unequal Scenes towards raising awareness of the challenge of inequality in Africa.” 
– James Neuhaus, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Regional Bureau for Africa, in New York

“There’s nothing that can substitute for the the force and the impact of these images to illustrate one of the key images that we as a South African nation face. And that is to deal with the legacy of apartheid spatial planning.” 
- Andries Nel, Deputy Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (South Africa)

"Your photographic and video account of unequal scenes across the world is the most vivid and challenging illustration of what exactly we are up against as urban planners, as it moves beyond mere maps and satellite images." 
- Dr. Elizabeth Barclay, Chief Town and Regional Planner, Development Planning Intelligence Management and Research, Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, Western Cape Government

SUPPORT
Unequal Scenes is supported in part with the generosity of Code For Africa.

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