Wayne Miller Strike captain during a protest of packing house workers. Chicago, Illinois. USA. March, 1948.
“Somehow or other, people accepted me, they didn’t feel I was trying to take advantage of them…I was
(...) serious about trying to take some photographs, and I wasn’t going to hurt them. I’d like to think that they felt that I could, maybe, tell their story and express the things that were of concern to them. I didn’t ask them to stand there, or put their arm there. I never interfered a bit as to what they were doing. My opening statement would usually be, ‘Please keep doing what you’re doing, it’s lovely,’ or something of that nature. Strangely enough, people would do it.”
— Wayne Miller, oral interview, 2001 © Wayne Miller | Magnum Photos
