Nomadic Madam

 Who is the Nomadic Madam?

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Miles Marie, also known as Nomadic Madam, is a Detroit based photographer whose practice explores the fluidity of identity, femininity, and place through a girl’s gaze that resists fixed definitions and embraces the femme side of the gender spectrum as both method and metaphor. Her earlier work examined the tension between social expectation and fantasy, weaving cultural fragments and beauty standards into visual narratives that challenge traditional modes of representation.

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Her current work expands on these themes through analog photographic processes, using film as a way to foster material presence and raw honesty through tactile analogue photographs in response to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.

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It is through this lens that Miles captures moments both organic and editorialized, grabbing the raw love of your wedding or stylized vision of your studio session. Booking her, is booking a photographer that isn't afraid to look beyond the traditional "pretty picture." ​

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Her work has been featured in PH Australia and The Detroit Metro Times, among other publications. Soon, her work will be exhibited in the SaveArtSpace x ComposingDetroit: In|Divisible public art exhibition. She lives and works in Detroit, where she co-owns the artist run gallery The Voyeur Bordello. 

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She is currently working on a few secret projects.... 

 

This work keeps her heart beating.

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