Like Someone in Love

When she started to work on Like Someone in Love, Elisa was looking for some look inspiration for her bride. The late 60s style of Sharon Tate's wedding dress caught her attention, and her style was exactly what she was after.

Coincidence of the internet, the same day on her IG feed, she came across some photos of Sharon and Richard Beymer taken on a beach, years before her wedding with Polanski, when she was at the time briefly engaged with Beymer. Her mind started wandering about destiny, crossroads where people choose a direction, which leads them toward something that could have been so different if they had chosen the other way.

That's also what her series is about. Destiny, choices, lack of alternatives, fear of change, alternate reality and parallel universes.

Award winning body of work "The Other"

Elisa Miller's body of work, "The Other," poses questions of identity and invites us to consider the limited possibilities of expressing one's true self. Limitations that we can feel due to society, our domestic situation, or even us. The modern world is still a difficult place for women, alas.

Taking inspiration from the famous quote of French author Jean-Paul Sartre "Hell is other people", these staged photos explore our self-limiting beliefs and our desire to fit in, and the gap between our true selves and what we are expected to be.

Miller invites us to imagine what it might feel like if we were able to express freely without fear of judgment or condemnation, to look beyond the boundaries we've set for ourselves and have the courage to become who we really are.

What if hell isn't actually other people - but the things we do to ourselves?