Elizabeth McMillan
Elizabeth McMillan (Cleveland, Ohio, 1941) is an emergency physician and photographer. Since 1985, when she presented her first exhibition, she has developed an artistic practice focused on the exploration of movement through photography. She lives between San Francisco and Seville, two cities that have influenced her gaze and her work.
In 2002 he retired prematurely from medicine due to a generalized tremor that prevented him from practicing with the precision necessary for emergency care. At that time he thought that the same condition would make it impossible to continue with photography. However, starting in 2011, he took up the camera again and faced the tremor as a new creative challenge.
Even before the appearance of the tremor, McMillan was already working with the technique of panning, which consists of moving the camera following the movement of a subject, keeping it in focus while the background and foreground go out of focus. Since his reencounter with photography, he began to consciously combine this controlled movement with involuntary shaking, integrating both into his visual language. The process is completed with the use of Adobe Lightroom, where he selects, interprets and adjusts each image as part of his artistic approach.
The result is photographs that explore the tension between control and chance, between what moves and what remains.
