Lyn Swett Miller Presents: The Big Edit: Finding Your Voice and Telling Stories from Your Archive
Lyn Swett Miller is a Vermont-based photographer and speaker whose work explores curiosity, compost, and connection as forces for renewal. For Miller, compost is both muse and metaphor. Her images invite reflection and dialogue about transformation, care, and community. Her projects include Compost: Muse & Metaphor, Meandering Mold: Messages from a Garden Library, and 13 Tons of Love, her weekly Substack that celebrates small acts of change and creative resilience.
Inspired by the question “If my proverbial ‘house’ was on fire, which images would I want to save?” she recently embarked on a project to reduce her own Lightroom Library from over 150,000 images to a more manageable number, like 10,000, which still seems like a lot. She has discovered that there is an ongoing conversation between those individual images that we feel are “the best” and the collections of images that reveal a deeper narrative.
In The Big Edit, she offers a framework for mining your photographic archive to reveal new stories.. In the process, she provides listeners with a tangible rationale for letting go of images that no longer serve. Please join Lyn for this engaging visual feast in which she shares some of what she has discovered and invites you to consider how you might approach a similar project.
After the Talk
Following Lyn’s talk, Steve Bayes will present a 15–20 minute demonstration and discussion on focus bracketing. More details to follow.
