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Highway 20 photo exhibition opens June 8 (May 22, 2008) – “Highway 20: Encounters with Genuine Life” opens at noon Sunday, June 8 at the Betty Strong Encounter Center on Sioux City’s Missouri Riverfront. The exhibition comprises 66 images by award-winning photographer Matt Miller of The Omaha World-Herald.
Miller shot the Nebraska photographs on assignment for The Omaha World-Herald from late 2006 through early 2008. He photographed Northwest Iowa Highway 20 images for the Encounter Center in spring 2008. “Many of us tend to think of Highway 20 as an unremarkable stretch of mostly two-lane road,” says Marcia Poole, director of the Center. “But if we take time for a good, long look we can find remarkably beautiful places and compelling people with stories to tell. Matt Miller’s pictures inspire us to spend more time and to look more deeply.” Miller’s images capture small-town life, with parades, a picnic, Saturday morning at the barbershop and St. Patrick’s Day at the local bar. He finds football games and ice fishing; homecoming festivities and family time; neighbors visiting and ranch hands wrestling with the branding chores. Miller spent three days photographing the Crazy Horse and Veterans’ Trail Ride, from Fort Robinson, Neb., to Pine Ridge, S.D. From the air, he shot Loess Hills, the Missouri River and Northwest Iowa farmland. In Sioux City, he waited for the birth of a baby. In almost forgotten Montrose, Neb., he watched a family bury a loved one at an unforgettable cemetery. Dozens of other photographs reveal slices of life along the 500-mile segment of Highway 20. The historic route runs from Boston, Mass., to Newport, Ore. Miller has been an Omaha World-Herald staff photographer since 2002. He also has worked at the Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn; The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kan.; The Idaho Statesman, Boise; and The Arlington Morning News, Arlington, Texas. He’s won numerous awards for his work, including runner-up Nebraska Photographer of the Year in 2007; and Nebraska Photographer of the Year in 2002 through 2006. A graduate of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Miller served as staff photographer, senior photographer and photo chief at the Daily Nebraskan. He graduated in 2000. Don Doll, S.J., is Professor of Photojournalism at Creighton University, Omaha, where he holds the Charles and Mary Heider Endowed Jesuit Chair. He has received the Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism in recognition of his work with Native people. He also has received the Nikon “World Understanding through Photography” award. He was named 2006 Nebraska Artist of the Year by the Nebraska Arts Council. His work has been featured in eatured in National Geographic magazine, and a number of books in the Day in the Life series, including America, California, Italy, Ireland, Passage to Vietnam, Christmas in America and the upcoming America at Home. His photographs also have been published in Crying for a Vision (Morgan & Morgan Publishers) and Vision Quest: Men, Women and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation (Crown Publishers). He appears in the Vision Quest DVD and Don Doll’s Vision Quest, both produced by Nebraska Public TV. The Betty Strong Encounter Center is a private, non-profit institution, built and sustained by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD). The Encounter Center and adjoining Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center are located on Sioux City’s Missouri Riverfront, exit 149 off I-29. For more information, visit www.siouxcitylcic.com or call 712-224-5242.
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