As it turned out, producing that body of work (which I titled Interiors) was the perfect preparation for photographing the deactivated and abandoned space launch and test facilities I investigated in my project, Abandoned in Place. Though not directly part of my graduate school research, this subject somewhat took over my photography. While out and about making landscape photographs, I started exploring the interiors of abandoned farm and ranch houses in northern Utah and Southern Idaho. In graduate school, I worked on colour landscape photography. Roland photographing the payload bay of Space Shuttle Endeavour I retired from higher education in 2018, and I have been working on photography full-time since that point. I moved away when I got married and taught photography at the College of Lake County, in Illinois for another six years before becoming dean of the Communication Arts, Humanities, and Fine Arts Division for another ten years. I was there for 16 years, and it rekindled my childhood interest-love really-for space exploration. Shortly after graduated, I started teaching photography at Brevard Community College (now Eastern Florida State College) in Cocoa, Florida-right by the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. I majored in Art and photography at Utah State University and received both my BFA and MFA in Art.
I enjoyed photography from an early age, and hot air ballooning provided a unique subject, especially at the time. I got into photography through working for a hot air balloonist in the mid-1970s. Can you give us a highlight into your career? You have been heavily involved in the academia aspect of photography only having retired from academia in 2018. To begin with, you are Chicago native and have been photographing for over 30 years. Hi Roland, thanks for taking the time for this interview. I caught up with Roland to talk about his latest work on photographing the interiors of the International Space Station from terra firma. Partway through this journey caught the attention of NASA that gave Roland unprecedented access to some of its projects. He has been documenting the various test and launch sites NASA and the United States Air Force had developed for the early space missions (Gemini and Apollo) for 30 years. Roland Miller is a documentary and fine art photographer hailing from Chicago, Illinois.
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