An Exclusive Interview With Sandro - Eyes Of Morocco

Sandro master of photography & film director

Sandro Miller (born 1958) is an American photographer (working professionally as "Sandro") known for his highly expressive images and his close work with actor John Malkovich and the other ensemble members of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. As a young teen, Sandro embraced the idea of making photographic portraits after seeing the portrait imagery of Irving Penn. He began photographing in Chicago at the age of sixteen and has since devoted his forty-plus- years career to creating expressive images from his elegant Ukranian Village studio.

With numerous award-winning commercial campaigns to his credit, Sandro is one of today's most respected commercial and fine art photographers. He has photographed plenty of national advertising campaigns for a long list of clients including: Adidas, Allstate Insurance, American Express, Anheuser-Busch, BMW, Champion, Coca-Cola, Dove, Gatorade, Honda, Milk, Microsoft, MillerCoors, Motorola, Nike, Nikon, Pepsi, Pony, UPS and the US Army.

In 2001 Sandro was invited by the Cuban government to photograph their Olympic athletes. This project was the first US/ Cuban collaboration since the trade embargo was imposed in 1960.

Sandro shoots all the promotional photography for Dance for Life, the Midwest's largest performance-based AIDS fundraiser. He is also a member of the board of directors for the Museum of Contemporary Photography and is a member of the Chicago Arts Club. Sandro had traveled to Morocco in November 2013 and shot portraits of 230 local tradesmen, nomadic people, snake charmers, fossil diggers and Gnawa musicians.

In 2014 Sandro had re-created 41 photographs paying an homage to the world's greatest photographers in a project titled "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters", using John Malkovich as the subject in each image.