Photo: Felipe Meireles

 

Johnny Miller is a photographer, filmmaker, artist and drone journalist based in South Africa and the USA. His work moves between photography, urbanism, inequality, health and the built environment, using visual tools — from aerial photography to satellite data to AI-built platforms — to make large structural forces legible.

His work has been published and exhibited internationally, including in National Geographic and the cover of Time, at Photo Art Basel, Unseen and numerous solo shows. Johnny is a Senior Fellow at Code for Africa, an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics, a BMW Responsible Leader and a UN-Habitat Champion. He is represented by Buchkunst Berlin.

Johnny is also the co-founder of africanDRONE, a pan-African initiative focused on using drones for public-interest storytelling, mapping, and analysis, and the director of Millefoto, his wider studio for photography, film, and visual storytelling. 

He can be reached at johnny@unequalscenes.com.

EXHIBITIONS (* are solo)

Gordon Institute of Business Science (Johannesburg, South Africa) - 2016*

Wits University (Johannesburg, South Africa) - 2016

Marion Center for Photographic Arts (Santa Fe, NM, USA) - 2017*

Story of Space (Goa, India) - 2017

PhotoBlock (London, UK) - 2017

“In Your Dreams”, Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney, Australia) - 2018

Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (Bonn, Germany) - 2018*

Festival Della Fotografica Etica (Lodi, Italy) - 2018

Umbria World Fest (Foligno, Italy) - 2018

Theaterfestival (Munich, Germany) - 2018

Xynteo (Oslo, Norway) - 2018

“Capitalist Realism”, Photo Biennale @ Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Greece) - 2018

Boston Society of Architects (Boston, MA, USA) - 2019*

Cultuurcentrum De Factorijj (Brussels, Belgium) - 2019*

Zingst Horizons Environmental Photo Festival (Zingst, Germany) - 2019

Photoville NYC (hosted by UNDP) (Brooklyn, NY, USA) - 2019

Visa Pour L'Image (Screening) (Perpignan, France) - 2019

"State of Extremes" (Holon Design Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel) - 2019

Geopolis (Brussels, Belgium) - 2019*

"Passports" (LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos, Nigeria) - 2019

Global Conference on Citizenship (Rennes, France) - 2020*

“We, Capitalists” (Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany) - 2020

Turchin Center @ Appalachian State University (Boone, NC, USA) - 2020*

“Troubled Waters” (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE) - 2021

Human Rights Film Festival (Berlin, DE) - 2021

Creative Brain Week (Dublin, Ireland) - 2022

“Being <La Terre Comme Événement>” (Centro Cultural de Mação, Portugal) - 2022

“Resistance Doesn’t Walk Alone - A Resistência Não Anda Só” (London School of Economics, London, UK) - 2022*

“The Art of Data” (Bletchley Park Museum, Milton Keynes, UK) - April 2022-2024

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) - September 2022*

World Bank HQ (Washington DC, USA) - April 2023

Photo Basel (Basel, Switzerland) - June 2023

Art Basel Miami (Miami, USA) - December 2023

Museum of Tomorrow - Permanent Collection (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Ongoing

Photo Basel (Basel, Switzerland) - June 2024

Unseen* (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - September 2024

Art Basel Miami (Miami, USA) - December 2024

Center (Santa Fe, USA) - February 2025

Buchkunst Berlin Gallery / European Month of Photography (Berlin, Germany) - March 2025*

ILKON Arts (Ilkeston, UK) - May 2025*

IBVA / Triennale (Milan, Italy) - May 2025*

Fotojatka Festival (Various Cities, Czech) - Nov/Dec 2025