Tate Britian – January 2026
From fashion modelling to travel photography to war time fashion photography to war photography, Lee Millar was a trailblazer in establishing photography as an art form collaborating with Man Ray and the Surrealist movement.
The most powerful room in the exhibition — which I wasn’t expecting — were a series of photos from Allies liberated concentration camps.
Harrowing and a stark reminder of Nazi and authoritarian rule.
This quote from her picture, Towards the enemy, Alsace, 1945 summarised for me how war changes your perspective on what is important.
Miller spent weeks there with infantry soldiers, overwhelmed by the brutality of the war. In her article, she demands: “What difference does it make if your daughter has straight teeth, or straight legs or straight hair? What difference does it make if your son has a straight back, a straight look, and straight morals?… one day you’ll wake up and look out in the street to find the dead.”
