Terry MIller, right, with admirers at his photo gallery exhibit.
Longtime photojournalist Terry Miller of the Arcadia Weekly and parent company Beacon Media has chronicled most of the most notable moments in Arcadia and surrounding communities over parts of the last three decades. And now a few of his most striking photographs are on display in an impressive exhibit at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage through March 14 called, He’s Got Ink In His Blood: 30 Years of California Photojournalism.
Museum Curator Dana Hicks, second from left in purple and scarf, raises a glass to Terry Miller.
Miller was the subject of a toast at the opening reception January 17, 2015.
Miller, who has become editor of the Beacon papers, is a second generation journalist. His father was a journalist for a British newspaper who was transferred to the United States in 1965 to work as a foreign correspondent, covering the assassinations of Senator Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Miller spent some of his childhood in New York City before returning to England and then coming back across the Pond in the late 1970s for a newspaper job in Goleta and residence in Santa Barbara, where he picked up photography.
He moved to the San Gabriel Valley in 1998, selling ads and shooting photos.
The images at the Gilb feature images of high-profile politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ted Kennedy, and Jerry Brown, as well as celebrities including Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams, and local personalities such as Mayor Pro Tem Gary Kovacic.
Miller’s red convertible is a familiar site around town.
There are also photos of events familiar to locals, including the 2009 Griffith Park fire, the 2005 train tragedy, and the recent Colby fire. Miller’s photography also captures touching moments, such as a child reaching out to touch a friendly firefighter, and another of the sad children of their fallen firefighter father.