JP MILES (b. 1986, Toronto, Canada) lives and creates much of his work amongst the biodiverse nature of Costa Rica. Miles graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Ontario, and began his artistic career in the film industry.

Initially captivated by the art of moving images, or video, it was his obsession with creating time lapses that ignited his fascination with long exposure photography. Using extended periods of time to create photographs with traces of motion. Captured in a way that reveals a perspective beyond what the human eye can perceive. Like the strokes of a car’s tail lights speeding down a highway. Or the misty haze of ocean waves revealing, yet still concealing, the rocks strewn across a coastline.

Beginning in 2017 and without even realising it at the time, Miles began his journey from a ‘photographer,’ towards becoming an ‘artist.’ No longer interested in using his camera to capture the world from his perspective. Instead he became fascinated with rearranging the world in front of his lens. Using his camera, time and movement as tools to re-visualize light into abstract works of art.

Often surprised by what he perceived within his work, early on Miles began the practice of rotating his art and viewing it in all four orientations. Fascinated by how vastly different the same piece could look, with just a simple shift in perspective. This obsession with rotating his artwork, and his desire to enable others to experience his work in this way, led him in 2021, to create ‘The Frame.’ A bespoke frame that can rotate an artwork in either direction remotely, without the need to rehang it.