Photography cannot be contained within any single image. Nor can it be found in any series of images. Photography is not restricted to the images we create. Photography is a practice—a method of perception that celebrates the material. Photography breaks free from an ordinary way of regarding. A photographer looks, then looks again. When a photographer captures multiple angles of a single object, it is not merely the photographer’s position behind the lens that changes.

In changing one’s perception, one changes the entire relationship between the eye and the object. In doing so, the division between the eye and the object dissolves. The result is a chiasm—an intertwining—between the body and what the body sees. Too look is a tactile act, and to practice photography is to engage the world of objects on a fundamental level.

— Grant McMillan

• Collaborative photo-text project Campus Building: Merrifield Hall published through The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, Fall 2023. Also available on Amazon.com.

• Cover image on the Grand Forks 2023 city calendar

• Sponsored artist at the 2022 Grand Forks ArtFest

• Recipient of the Grand Forks Public Arts Commission’s Winter 2021 Mayor’s Choice Award

• Winner of UND’s Greenway Press Nonfiction Chapbook Competition Fall 2021 for The Wrong Side of the Wall

If you are interested in custom prints, have specific scenes or events you would like photographed, or enjoy talking about photography craft, please reach out to me at the contact email below:

grantgmcmillan@gmail.com