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Author Christian Hummel describes Halloween this way: It is a "time when the
veils between the worlds were thinner, and so many could see the other side of life. A
time in the year when the spiritual and material worlds touched for a moment, and a
greater potential exists for magical creation". Las Vegas Photographers Todd Duane
Miller and Miroslav Parushev get that and with a special take, as Las Vegas has more
than it's share of unusual characters. So how do two high energy, and creative
photographers make the most of the official, "Day of the Dead"? By packing up a
studio and heading out to an obscure downtown parking lot to see what crawls out of
the cracks. Todd and Miro firmly believe in letting the spirit of Halloween crash into
the law of serendipity, and their "a-little-off-kilter work", Project Halloween prove
it. Conveniently located within shouting distance of a haunted house, it didn't take
much coaxing to get true believers onto the set. Perhaps it was, as Hummel writes,
"The normal laws of space and time were held in abeyance during this time, allowing
a special window where the spirit world could intermingle with the living", or maybe
the dark creative whimsey of Miller and Parushev. Whatever it was that night, the
Photographers saw it, helped it along, and ushered in a magical creation.
About the Artists:
Miroslav Parushev, stuck in "Public Administration" University in Bulgaria, simply
cannot stand it one more minute.
Born into a lovely but non-artistic family, Miro stuffs his love for the visual arts as
long as he possibly can. In his last year in University,
Miro heads out to the USA, and buys his first camera. He is hooked, and while
traveling the USA, stops, fascinated with Vegas. Before long his is entrenched in the
Commercial Photography program at CSN . Relentless in his pursuit of artistic
perfection, Miro cannot get enough of anything photographic. He is currently
finishing up this degree while working on many other projects simultaneously.
Project Halloween was Miro's brain child, one of the unending great ideas that will
come from this charismatic young European. You can view his website
at: www.parachue.com
Todd Duane Miller, an army brat as a child, ended up his adolescence in Wood River,
Missouri. When his Dad died suddenly when he was 15, life started veering off
course. His saving grace was finding a little manual 35mm camera, along with a set
of Time/Life books in his Dad's stuff. Todd became obsessed with picture taking, and
for the next several years would pour through those books, relishing anything that
would help him become a better photographer, even taking advice from the guys at
the film developing lab. Years later, after a series of empty, laborious jobs, Todd
moved to Las Vegas with the love of his life, looking for a new start. He enrolled at
CSN, and everything gelled at once for him. Todd is currently in his last stretch of
education, an expert in HDR techniques, and always has that next trip planned in
which he can expand his ever impressive portfolio. http://todd-duane.blogspot.com
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