Biography
A nationally exhibited, internationally published, outspoken advocate of the digital darkroom, Jean Miele’s highly manipulated black-and-white landscape images represent the fusion of classical 20th century landscape photography with 21st century technology. In addition to creating commercial and fine art photography, Jean Miele teaches Photoshop technique workshops and presents "Digital darkroom" seminars for among others, the International Center for Photography (ICP) where he is a member of the faculty; Apple Computer; Fuji USA; Hasselblad; NancyScans; The Santa Fe Workshops; American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP); Advertising Photographers of America (APA), and The Soho Gallery. He is a member of the Board of Directors of APA NY, and is on the Executive Committee of the Soho Photo Gallery, the oldest cooperative photographic gallery in New York City. He is also the facilitator and moderator of the “Soho Photo Presents” lecture series, and is actively involved in The New York Photographer’s Forum, an ongoing salon. Miele has appeared as a guest lecturer on photography at the School of Visual arts (SVA), New York University (NYU), New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), and the Columbia University School of Journalism. Concurrent with his fine art work and teaching commitments, Miele has been working in commercial photography since 1984, and currently operates an independent studio providing photography for annual reports, corporate communications, advertising, and magazines. His photographs have appeared in thousands of publications. Miele travels often, continually adding images to several ongoing bodies of work. For the last several years he has been focusing on a new series of black-and-white images entitled "Vestiges of Industry" which celebrates the vanishing beauty of pre-computer age machines and technology.
