Ken Miller – Open All Night with Introduction and Text by William T. Vollmann

Description

Ken Miller’s Open All Night is a raw, arresting photographic document of New York’s after-hours underground at the turn of the millennium. With his camera and a sharp sense of intimacy, Miller captures skinheads, sex workers, hustlers, and artists in stark black and white — not as caricatures, but as fully formed humans caught in the swirl of nightlife, survival, and self-definition. The images are unflinching, yet never cruel, and together they map a geography of vulnerability and defiance.

Each photograph is accompanied by a short passage of fiction by National Book Award-winner William T. Vollmann. His words—lyrical, gritty, and emotionally unvarnished—add layers of depth and voice alongside Miller’s portraits, blurring the line between documentation and storytelling. The result is a collaborative portrait of lives lived in the margins, with dignity and danger side by side.

A vital entry in the canon of outsider documentary photography and a must-have for any Vollmann collector.