Founders

Deeply moved by the plight of orphaned and abandoned children in Romania, Katherine and Richard Miller provided one child with the greatest gift of all – a family.  Yet changing just one life was not enough.  Unable to turn their backs on the tens of thousands of others left behind, Katherine and Richard founded Lift the Children in 1998 to promote the right of every child to be loved and to live in safety and dignity. Although Richard passed away in 2002, his and Katherine’s legacy lives on and the Miller family continues to support the activities of Lift the Children and the Child Abuse Prevention Center.

Passage: Europe

Photographer Richard Copeland Miller traveled and photographed throughout Europe for many years. With his wife, Katherine, he founded The LIFT Foundation (now called Lift the Children), dedicated to helping vulnerable children in Romania. Although Richard passed away tragically and suddenly in 2002, his and Katherine's legacy lives on in Lift the Children of the Child Abuse Prevention Center, a charitable organization committed to preventing abuse, neglect, and abandonment of children in Romania and beyond. 

Mr. Miller took many of the photographs on trips to Eastern Europe during Lift the Children’s early years.  His donation of 1,200 hardbound editions of Passage: Europe to Lift the Children allows us to make this elegant fine art photography book available for purchase. Lift the Children will receive 100% of the gross proceeds from any purchase of Passage: Europe.  Your contribution to Lift the Children is tax deductible.

PASSAGE: EUROPE is a rare and beautiful lyric poem through the medium of photography.  It brings together profound images from the streets and countryside of Europe in a touching portrayal of the human condition.  The original writing by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine introduces and complements this powerful book of photographs. 

The photographs in PASSAGE: EUROPE are presented in an oversize 12.5" x 12.5" hardcover book and exquisitely printed as 600-line screen tritones and quadtones.  A standard hardbound edition is available for $35 plus shipping and handling. 

These photographs are the still sad music of humanity made visible. 

Ray Olson
Booklist

Passage Europe is a beautifully produced book. The photographs, which should really be called "Art Works" are superb, touching, and historic. 

John Austin 
Books of the Month

Passage: Europe by photographer Richard Copeland Miller discloses an atmosphere of lingering historical mystery around daily life in Europe. Capturing otherwise transient moments in cobbled alleys or church interiors of old Europe, these rich black-and-white images enchant, stir, and speak at once to the vigor of life and the silence of history. 

Doubletake Magazine

The cities of Europe may be the most photographed in the world. But Passage: Europe is no travelogue. Unless, of course, the journey is through life. . . . The photographs are evocative, even viscerally so. Miller’s often-blurred impressionistic images generally shed specificity and evoke a timeless Europe that is as universal as a fairy tale. 

David Barton 
Sacramento Bee

. . . gorgeous images . . . evocative explorations on many levels. The country Miller travels is universal, a country of metaphor where people wander in and out of stories, each with their own tale, and each taking part in the larger passage of time. Miller’s Passage: Europe , with its hauntingly beautiful imagery, is not only a feast for the eye but also a celebration of the art of book manufacture-from the heavy stock to the printing done in Belgium to the tritone plates (their dense 600-line screen makes it virtually impossible to detect a dot), no effort has been spared to make this a connoisseur’s treasure. 

Shawn O’Sullivan 
Black and White Magazine

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